Ready, Set, LEARN - Ready, Set, READ

"Why isn't my child reading?"

"I can't even read my child's writing!"

"I don't know what to do to help them."

Many families have these same concerns and frustrations.

There are several factors that can affect a child's ability to crack the code of reading and writing, but many students can experience success with a small group, structured, explicit and sequential literacy intervention approach.

At Ready, Set, Read, we combine the most recent reading research, evidence-based teaching practices, and targeted structured literacy activities to create a reading and writing intervention program to help your child become a more confident and accurate reader!

Key Components of the "Ready, Set, READ" Program

Phonemic Awareness

PHONEMIC AWARENESS refers to the ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds. For example, the word 'rat' has three phonemes: /r/ /a/ /t/. Acquiring phonemic awareness is important because it is the foundation for spelling and word recognition skills. Phonemic awareness is one of the best predictors of how well children will learn to read during the first two years of school instruction.

Phonics

The goal of PHONICS instruction is to help children learn the alphabetic principle — the idea that letters represent the sounds of spoken language — and that there is an organized, logical, and predictable relationship between written letters and spoken sounds.

Learning that there are predictable relationships between sounds and letters allows children to apply these relationships to both familiar and unfamiliar words, and to begin to read with fluency.

Fluency

FLUENCY is the ability to read with the appropriate speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently.

Vocabulary Development and Reading Comprehension

VOCABULARY is key to reading comprehension. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the words mean. READING COMPREHENSION is the ability to understand and interpret what a child has read. To be able to accurately understand a text, children need to be able to (1) decode what they read; (2) make connections between what they read and what they already know; and (3) think deeply about what they have read.

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Targeted Programs Based on YOUR Child's Assessment Results

One size does not fit all...especially when it comes to targeted literacy intervention.

In order to meet the needs of your child, it is crucial for our teaching team to know their literacy strengths and their specific areas of need in order to create an individualized learning plan for their success.

At the beginning of each tutoring program, a complete 1:1 literacy assessment will be completed with your child. This gives a roadmap of what skills to begin with, the skills we will be working towards, and allow us to carefully track your child's progress.

All results are shared with parents or guardians at the beginning of our tutoring sessions and at the conclusion of each program.

Meet Your "Ready, Set, READ" Literacy Tutor

Cheryl Achenbach

Cheryl has been an elementary classroom teacher for 25 years and is an Ontario-certified Reading Specialist.

Cheryl's passion is in helping kids "break the code" of reading and writing. She has extensive experience working with children with reading challenges and helping them develop skills and strategies to become successful readers and writers.

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