Remedial Academic Learning
Our goal during remedial academic sessions is about having fun while building academic skills. Games reinforce learned skills and multi-sensory activities help to engage learners. While we can use several academic programs, our approach is student-centred, catering to how each individual learns best. Sessions are facilitated by a certified teacher focuses on remediating literacy skills: reading, writing, and mathematics for learners in Kindergarten to grade 9. Youth who are older and require a boost of their literacy skills are also accommodated.
Reading Approaches and Programs We Use
Orton-Gillingham Approach (OG) is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. It is a Structured Literacy approach that is endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association.
UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute) Foundations is an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundation skills necessary for proficient reading and spelling. It was developed to align with decades of reading research has shown to be effective and is evidence-based. The program focuses on teaching decoding skills so that when fluent, learners can apply their linguistic comprehension skills, construct meaning from text and demonstrate their understanding.
Jolly Phonics is a synthetic multisensory approach to teaching phonics skills. It incorporates music, movement, and stories to learn the sounds and sound combinations for reading and spelling.
Reading Power is a meta-cognitive approach to reading and writing instruction grounded in research. Reading Power helps to build solid reading comprehension skills by using strategies that dive deeper into text.
Writing Approaches We Use
Orton-Gillingham Approach (OG) is used to teach the skills of writing and spelling. It is a Structured Literacy approach that is endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association.
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6 in 1 Traits of Writing is a framework that emphasizes the most important qualities in good writing. The important writing traits include organization, idea, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Educational research states that all good writing includes these six key ingredients.
Mathematics Approach We Use
First Steps in Math is organized around mathematical outcomes for number, measurement, space, chance and data. It is used as an assessment to diagnose strengths and areas of need as well as provide fun activities to help remediate weaknesses. Extensive research was used to develop the program in Western Australia.