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Summer Services

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

 

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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

 

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SERVICE #3:

Annotation and active reading modeling and instruction with Todd (suggested for entering 5th graders and up)

 

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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

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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

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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

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Service #6 

The College 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

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READING, WRITING AND SPELLING ASSESSMENTS CAN BE ARRANGED 

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