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
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Reading and writing fluency training with expository and fictional texts
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Comprehension Strategies
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Vocabulary Development
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Evidence and or research based programs and materials are included
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Twenty sessions are recommended over the summer for meaningful progress
SERVICE #2
Developing Reading Interest and Skills with Kate or Todd:
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Reading interest inventory
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Customized book list suggestions
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Access to an assistive technology for reading training
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Active reading strategies for comprehension
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Prosody development — the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech that provides important information beyond a sentence's literal word meaning
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Dialogue reading practice
SERVICE #3:
Annotation and active reading modeling and instruction with Todd (suggested for entering 5th graders and up)
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Active note taking strategies to increase students’ engagement, comprehension and retention
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This service includes materials and at least 10 sessions are suggested over the summer
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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:
Executive function coaching and study skills with Todd (suggested for entering 6th graders and up)
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Understanding your executive skills profile
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Goal setting
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Strategies for success: Studying for tests, long term project planning, staying organized, how to manage distractions, time management, etc.
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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:
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Planning and prewriting
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Sentence structure and variety
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Grammar for writing
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Basic paragraph structure
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Expanding paragraphs
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Audience and purpose
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Modes of writing
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Summarizing
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Writing for prompts
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Essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing
Grades 9-12:
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Sentence structure
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Expanding Sentences
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Advanced grammar for writing
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Prewriting and utilizing graphic organizers
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Basic paragraph structure
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Expanding paragraphs
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Modes of secondary school writing
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Outlining
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Essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing
Service #6
The College Admissions Essay With Todd: This service includes materials and at least 10 sessions is suggested over the summer
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Learn how to write an essay that will impress the reader
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Your story should draw the reader in
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Everything you write should reveal something interesting about you and describe who you are
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Reveal your values and dreams
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Offer a nuanced and complex understanding of life and the world
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Take the reader on a journey
READING, WRITING AND SPELLING ASSESSMENTS CAN BE ARRANGED