As you begin to make plans for your children and family, remember that while kids and adults alike need a break, it is also equally important for kids to be inspired, mentored, and challenged across a variety of areas.
We will be offering sessions to help with all of the following:
*Reducing the impact of the "summer slide"
*Helping students recover from pandemic learning loss
*Developing reading skills as a summertime outlet that may otherwise be filled with screen time
*Presenting evidence based reading and spelling intervention
*Developing skills in annotation and active reading instruction
*Explicit writing instruction
*College essay guidance
*Executive function coaching and study skills
*Assistive technology practice
SERVICE #1:
Educational Therapy with Kate: Customized and individualized remediation for reading and spelling. This includes handwriting instruction in print or in cursive. Service options include:
Orton-Gillingham based instruction
Reading and writing fluency training with expository and fictional texts
Comprehension Strategies
Vocabulary Development
Evidence and or research based programs and materials are included
Twenty sessions are recommended over the summer for meaningful progress
SERVICE #2
Developing Reading Interest and Skills with Kate or Todd:
Reading interest inventory
Customized book list suggestions
Access to an assistive technology for reading training
Active reading strategies for comprehension
Prosody development — the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech that provides important information beyond a sentence's literal word meaning.
Dialogue reading practice
SERVICE #3:
Annotation and active reading modeling and instruction with Todd (suggested for entering 5th graders and up)
Active note taking strategies to increase students’ engagement, comprehension and retention.
This service includes materials and at least 10 sessions are suggested over the summer.
Below is an article about the value of active reading and incorporation of marginalia as well as student-friendly approaches.
SERVICE #4:
Executive function coaching and study skills with Todd (suggested for entering 6th graders and up)
Understanding your executive skills profile
Goal setting
Strategies for success: Studying for tests, long term project planning, staying organized, how to manage distractions, time management, etc.
This service includes materials and at least 10 sessions are suggested over the summer
SERVICE #5:
Explicit writing instruction with Todd : This service includes materials and at least 10-15 sessions is suggested over the summer.
Grades 5-8:
Planning and prewriting
Sentence structure and variety
Grammar for writing
Basic paragraph structure
Expanding paragraphs
Audience and purpose
Modes of writing
Summarizing
Writing for prompts
Essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing
Grades 9-12:
Sentence structure
Expanding Sentences
Advanced grammar for writing
Prewriting and utilizing graphic organizers
Basic paragraph structure
Expanding paragraphs
Modes of secondary school writing
Outlining
Essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing
Service #6
The College (or high school) Admissions Essay With Todd: This service includes materials and at least 10 sessions is suggested over the summer.
Learn how to write an essay that will impress the reader
Your story should draw the reader in
Everything you write should reveal something interesting about you and describe who you are.
Reveal your values and dreams
Offer a nuanced and complex understanding of life and the world
Take the reader on a journey
If you are new to us, to book or learn more, please email us at nolalsp504@gmail.com
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