Accurate Initial Literacy Assessments for Every Student

We evaluate each student’s needs to tailor lessons with science-based teaching.

Lesson Formats

We teach 1-on-1 and up to 1-on-3 sessions.

We focus on literacy skills (phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, fluency, RAN, etc.) using the Acadience Assessment System.

Initial Assessments

Duration: 1.5 - 2 hours
Includes a written profile and a tentative plan
The assessment is the foundation of each student individualized lesson plans.

Resoucre Package

Each student will require a resource package, which includes:

1 set of grapheme cards
1 set of phoneme cards
2 dictation books
18 x 36 magnetic whiteboard
Magnetic grapheme tiles
4″ zipper binder with dividers
Writing Notebook, Word Study Notebook, and an Orthography Notebook
A ring of blank cue cards (cards will be added during sessions)
2 folders for carrying materials to and from sessions

Other resources and learning tools will be required as your child progresses. The whiteboard, tiles, phoneme cards, and binder stay at Literally Fun Literacy for use during sessions.

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What We Do

1. Initial assessments

2. Progress mentoring

3. Individualized sessions

Recommended Frequency

The science has shown that for remediation to be effective and as efficient as possible, four to six sessions at 50 minutes each is required.

I strongly urge parents to send their kids for 3–4 sessions per week for 1–2 hours at a time.

Cursive Writing

Students will learn cursive. This is mandatory. Exemptions will be made if required. Research has connected fluency and comprehension to children learning cursive, so cursive is embedded into each lesson.

Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring using the Acadience Reading Assessment System will be conducted as needed depending on the child’s progress. Regular monitoring and assessing are built into the lessons.

Homework & Practice

I send home about 5–15 minutes of daily exercises or homework. It is up to the parents to decide if they want to complete it. The more practice at home, the faster the child catches up and becomes successful at reading and writing.

Understanding the Process

This is not a quick fix tutoring solution. Direct, explicit, and structured literacy remediation can be a slow process because the student is working towards automaticity, which takes a great deal of repetition.

Parents and students must be patient while the student learns the procedures and learns how to connect the audio/visual and kinesthetic systems to read and write successfully.

Typically, there is very little growth in the first 4 - 6 weeks.
Usually, around the 3 month mark the student’s skill start becoming automatic,also know as automaticity, .

Is the child remediated? No, far from it, but one piece of the cognitive load has been lifted.

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