Services

Our individualized sessions focus on foundational skills essential for literacy and numeracy success, tailored to each child's specific developmental needs.

Literacy Intervention

Early Literacy Development

Phonemic Awareness: Engaging activities and games help children identify and manipulate sounds in words, a crucial skill for decoding.
Vocabulary Expansion: Through rich conversations, storytelling, and word play, we enhance children's vocabulary and deepen their understanding of language.
Syntactic Awareness: Interactive exploration of sentence structure and grammar helps children understand how words work together to create meaning.
Listening Comprehension: Activities such as following directions, retelling stories, and engaging in conversations boost listening skills and comprehension.
Print Concepts: Introducing children to books, teaching them how to handle books, understand that print carries meaning, and follow the directionality of text.
Letter Knowledge: Exploring the alphabet, learning letter names, sounds, and how to form both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Beginning Reading

Phonics and Decoding: Systematic introduction to phonics patterns, starting with consonant sounds and short vowels, progressing to more complex digraphs and blends. Practice decoding strategies for both regular and irregular words and recognizing high-frequency sight words to enhance reading speed and accuracy.
Fluency: Engaging in repeated reading of connected texts, focusing on accuracy, speed, and expression (prosody) to develop smooth and expressive reading.
Comprehension: Practicing literal comprehension, making inferences, and retelling stories in sequence to build a strong foundation for understanding and engaging with written material.
Writing: Practicing letter formation and handwriting, ensuring a strong grasp of sound-spelling correspondences through invented spelling activities, and crafting simple sentences to express ideas in writing.

Transitional Reading

Phonics & Decoding Mastery: Diving deeper into phonics patterns, exploring long vowels, vowel teams, and silent letters. Practicing decoding multisyllabic words using syllabication strategies, aiming for automaticity and fluency.
Fluency: Reading longer and more complex texts with accuracy, expression, and appropriate pace. Building stamina for independent reading, encouraging children to tackle a variety of genres and topics.
Vocabulary Expansion: Engaging in explicit vocabulary instruction, exploring word meanings, using context clues to decipher unfamiliar words, and examining prefixes, suffixes, and roots to unlock word families and expand vocabulary.
Comprehension Strategies: Analyzing text structure, identifying narrative and informational elements, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and summarizing main ideas and key details to develop a deeper understanding of texts.
Writing Proficiency: Exploring spelling patterns and rules, refining writing accuracy, crafting compound and complex sentences, and focusing on paragraph writing to develop clear topic sentences and supporting details for organized and impactful written pieces.

Intermediate & Advanced Reading

Vocabulary Enrichment: Delving into academic vocabulary and specialized terminology across various subjects, exploring word relationships, nuances in meaning, and how words are used in different contexts. Fostering vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading of diverse texts.
Critical Comprehension: Moving beyond literal understanding to analyze and interpret texts with a critical lens, evaluating information sources, identifying biases, and synthesizing information from multiple sources to draw informed conclusions.
Fluency Across Genres: Maintaining and enhancing fluency across a wide range of genres and text complexities, ensuring adaptability in reading style to different types of material, and focusing on reading with confidence, accuracy, and expression.
Advanced Writing Skills: Refining essay writing skills across persuasive, informative, and narrative genres, developing research and inquiry skills, and focusing on grammar and mechanics to ensure clear and polished written communication.

Numeracy Intervention

Elementary School

Number Sense: Systematic instruction in quantity discrimination, one-to-one correspondence, and cardinality principles to build a strong foundation for numerical understanding.
Counting and Cardinality: Explicit teaching of verbal counting sequences, object counting strategies, and the relationship between numbers and quantities.
Early Addition and Subtraction: Introduction to basic operations using concrete manipulatives and visual models, progressing to mental strategies for simple calculations.
Spatial Reasoning: Structured activities to develop spatial awareness, shape recognition, and basic geometric concepts.

Middle School

Algebraic Thinking: Structured development of algebraic reasoning, including pattern recognition, variable use, and equation solving strategies.
Proportional Reasoning: Explicit instruction in ratio and proportion concepts, with applications to percent problems and real-world scenarios.
Geometry: Systematic exploration of two- and three-dimensional shapes, their properties, and relationships, incorporating proof-based reasoning where appropriate.
Statistical Literacy: Introduction to data analysis techniques, probability concepts, and interpretation of graphical representations.

High School

Advanced Algebra: Rigorous development of function concepts, including linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions, with emphasis on multiple representations and real-world applications.
Trigonometry: Explicit instruction in trigonometric functions, identities, and applications, building on geometric and algebraic foundations.
Calculus Readiness: Systematic preparation for calculus concepts, including limits, rates of change, and area under curves, using both graphical and algebraic approaches.
Statistical Inference: Introduction to advanced statistical concepts, including sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals.

College Courses Support

We offer specialized support for students transitioning from high school mathematics to college-level courses, such as MAT 140 and above. These foundational courses typically include College Algebra, Precalculus, Introductory Statistics, and Finite Mathematics. Upon request, our experienced educators provide personalized assistance to help students bridge any gaps in their foundational knowledge, develop problem-solving strategies, and understand complex concepts.

Assessments

Assessments are the cornerstone of our data-driven approach to intervention and instruction. We believe in the power of data to inform and guide our practice, ensuring that every student receives the most effective and personalized support possible.

Literacy Assessments

Foundational Skills

(print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition)

Reading Fluency

(accuracy, rate, prosody)

Reading Comprehension

(literal, inferential, critical)

Writing Skills

(spelling, grammar, composition)

Numeracy Assessments

Number Sense

Geometry

Measurement

Data Analysis

Algebraic Thinking

Consultation

Our team of experienced educators provides comprehensive consulting services to families, specializing in guiding educational decisions and supporting students' academic and personal growth. Our services include:

Educational Decision Guidance
We assist families in navigating complex educational choices, offering personalized recommendations for selecting schools, programs, and interventions based on evidence-based research.

IEP/504 Plan Development & Advocacy
We support families in understanding and navigating the IEP/504 process, ensuring students receive appropriate accommodations and support tailored to their individual needs.

Transition Planning
We help students and families plan for transitions between schools, programs, or life stages, focusing on academic, social, and emotional well-being.