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Program
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Reading Readiness Skills for 4-Year-Olds & Entering
Kindergartners
Alphabet Skills - Beginning Phonics
- Comprehension
Love of Reading
Goals
 In this program, your child will build the foundation
for the first critical
years in school. All students in
this program experience success and gain
confidence,
as they learn and practice the alphabet, beginning
phonics, and
comprehension skills.
Our long term goal is to help you make sure your
child becomes an avid reader.
Children who read for
pleasure, outside of school, become strong readers
and
confident students, and are able to enrich their lives through contact with great
literature.
Instructor
Instructors are drawn from the faculty of the Institute of Reading Development.
Curriculum design and instructor training are supervised by Paul Copperman, a
Presidential appointee to the National Council on Educational Research, and the
author of Taking Books to Heart: How to Develop a Love of Reading in Your
Child.
Format
This lively class, engaging for both you and your child, is an ideal early
classroom experience for young learners. The program is conducted as a workshop,
a format that facilitates full participation and allows the instructor to provide
individual attention and the appropriate level of challenge and encouragement for
each student. Class time is divided into short segments, each devoted to an
enjoyable activity, such as reading, discussion, games, dramatization, music, or
art activities centered on great children's literature. At home, students use
workbooks and great children's literature to continue to practice.
The class meets for one hour and 15 minutes, once a week for five weeks. Your
child will practice at home for 20-30 minutes, four times per week.
Skills
Alphabet Skills & Beginning Phonics:
The program includes instruction in alphabet skills and beginning phonics. This
instruction is provided in class, as well as through the highly successful and
engaging workbook and audio CD, Pole and Vole Stories. This workbook and CD
provide phonics instruction in an adventure story format.
See
sample pages from Pole and Vole Stories
(PDF
document)
Comprehension Skills:
Students learn to relate the characters and events of great children's literature
to their own lives. In this way our students become active readers with strong
comprehension. Students also learn to imagine more clearly what is described by
the author, to identify more completely with the thoughts and feelings of
characters, and to actively anticipate what comes next in the story.
Materials
All of the materials we use are designed to build beginning reading skills and
encourage a love of reading. Students receive a phonics workbook, Pole and Vole
Stories. This beautifully illustrated workbook (with accompanying CD's) will hold
your child's interest and generate enthusiastic participation because it teaches
beginning phonics skills using adventure stories, characters, and music.
Participants also receive a Course Workbook and Parent Manual, which contains
in-class exercises, homework activities for each week of the course, and, for
parents, a detailed overview of all skills and activities contained in the
program.
See
sample pages from the Course Workbook and Parent Manual
(PDF
document)
You and your child will also receive the Reading Development Booklist, an
important tool for building strong reading skills and the lifelong habit of
reading for pleasure. The Reading Development Booklist summarizes hundreds of the
very best children's books. By using the recommendations, which are organized by
level of difficulty, you and your child will know what books to choose and what
sequence to read them in. Your child's instructor will evaluate your child's
stage of reading development and provide guidance on where your child should
begin in the booklist.
See
sample pages from Reading Development Booklist
(PDF
document)
Tuition is
$229.
Registration & Information
For
more information or to register, please call one of our Program Directors at 1-800-964-8888.
We are available to take your call from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through
Thursday, and from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays.
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