Course Description

Tutoring for students enrolled in Orton-Gillingham Tutoring will occur in individual sessions after assessments are completed.

Each tutoring session will last for 45 minutes and students will be tutored once or twice per week using the Orton-Gillingham approach.

New students will need to attend an assessment time before the tutoring begins to determine their reading level.  Once a tutoring spot becomes available for your student, you will be connected to a Reading Tutor who can set up a time to assess your child.

During the Orton-Gillingham lesson, a student is taught reading, spelling, handwriting, and expressive writing as a whole body. The Orton-Gillingham approach is a multi-sensory approach and each phonetic unit and sequence in spoken and/or graphic form is learned through hearing, speaking, seeing, and writing; these skills are learned and practiced simultaneously in coordination with one another. The teacher teaches the student small doses of the language in each tutoring session and connects their new learning to their prior knowledge of what they have already learned. The tutor will monitor skill development for each student. The lessons are built upon what is observed in the previous lesson and what is seen to be necessary to move the child forward in the next lesson. This tutoring will not serve as the student’s daily reading program. It will be a supplement to the instruction already occurring at home.

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To be successful in this class:

Students must be actively working on a reading curriculum and practicing reading daily with their teaching parent. Tutors recommend using All about Reading and All about Spelling curriculum. Orton Gillingham Reading Tutoring should be viewed as an intervention to supplement what parents are doing at home. This tutoring time will be centered on Orton-Gillingham mini lessons focusing on certain reading skills/errors that are needed based on each small group reading needs and there will not be time in a tutoring session to teach all reading skills comprehensively.

Grades: 6th Grade, 1st Grade, 7th Grade, 2nd Grade, 8th Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Fees: INDIVIDUAL SESSION FEES: -45 minute tutoring sessions, twice per week: $840 per semester -45 minute tutoring session, once per week: $420 per semester Plus $20 individual student assessment fee for new students only. Plus enrollment fee per student. Plus $10 materials fee per student.

Prerequisites:

This tutoring program is for students in 1st-8th grade. An assessment will be done before tutoring begins to determine a student’s level. Payment is required prior to signing up for an assessment time slot. Families will enroll and pay for one semester of tutoring at a time. Parents may choose to continue or discontinue tutoring after each semester.