Service Descriptions

We offer sessions to help with all of the following:

*Helping students recover from pandemic learning loss

*Developing independent reading skills

*Evidence based reading and spelling intervention

*Developing skills in annotation and active reading instruction for stronger comprehension

*Explicit writing instruction

*College essay guidance

*Assistive technology practice

SERVICE #1

Educational Therapy with Kate: Customized and individualized remediation for reading and spelling. This can include handwriting instruction in print or in cursive. Sessions are customized; options include:

Reading fluency training with expository and fictional texts
Explicit, systematic, phonics instruction
Comprehension Strategies
Vocabulary Development
Evidence and or research based programs and materials
Written expression remeiation including handwriting instruction

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. annotation:https://www.edutopia.org/article/more-highlighting-creative-annotations/

SERVICE #4:

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.

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 Admissions Essay With Todd:

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

*At least twenty sessions are recommended for meaningful progress

READING, WRITING AND SPELLING ASSESSMENTS CAN BE ARRANGED