Elementary School Tutoring Options

Orton-Gillingham tutoring is an individualized, multi-sensory approach to teaching reading designed for dyslexic learners. This approach uses structured literacy to teach your child by first mastering the smallest sounds and then introducing new, more complex sounds. During their first two sessions, your child will take a pre-assessment to determine their current reading level and to provide the tutor with the information they need to design an individualized study plan. After that, each session will consist of a combination of hands-on, visual, and auditory activities that will give your child the tools they need to find success and enjoyment in reading. We typically suggest starting with ten sessions, although the number of sessions suggested for the best outcome will be determined based on the testing.

Helping Students Remember is a hands-on memory training program for children and adolescents. Our academic coaches follow the curriculum from Milton J. Dehn's "Helping Students Remember." The lessons are targeted to help each student maximize the potential of their memory.  Memory is an essential neurodevelopment component that is the key to long-term mastery of information. Memory involves getting information into the brain, connecting information to current knowledge, negotiating the information, and retrieving it at the appropriate time.

The Getting into Grammar tutoring program is designed for students who want to enhance their writing skills by learning and understanding the basic building blocks of grammar. Students examine the eight parts of speech and how they function in a sentence. Students learn sentence types, sentence structures, and sentence patterns and then use words, phrases, and clauses to build increasingly complex sentences. Along the way, students examine sticky grammar problems that weaken writing. These skills enhance their ability to understand the mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, and spelling) and grammar necessary to communicate ideas in writing.