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WHAT WE DO
Provide personalized individual tutoring helping struggling readers succeed.
Testing - Use of a variety of testing materials
- Illinois Snapshots of Early Literacy (ISEL)
- Observation Survey, Marie Clay
- Running Records, Marie Clay
- Basic Reading Inventory (BRI), Jerry Johns
- Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI), Leslie & Caldwell
- Critchlow Verbal Language Scales Vocabulary Test, Donald Critchlow
- Morrison-McCall Developmental Spelling Test
- Various Reading Inventories
Tutoring - Based on research and best practices
- Individual and small group sessions
- Differentiated instruction to match specific individual needs
- Scaffolded instruction with appropriate accommodations for every person
- Building metacognition and comprehension
- Teaching the reading strategies of making predictions, making connections, asking questions, making inferences, giving opinions, visualizing, clarifying, summarizing, recognizing the author’s purpose, comparing, and contrasting before, during, and after guided reading lessons
- Gradual release method, where the teacher gradually releases the responsibility to the students, giving them the opportunity to use the strategies independently
- Writing plays an important role in every guided reading lesson
For more information about our reading services, please contact Barb O'Heath, at barb@careerventures.biz.
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