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SUMMER PROGRAMS |
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Special Workshops
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Read! Read! Read! |
| Speed Reading Reading For Understanding "NEW PROGRAM" |
READ! READ! READ! Motivating your child to read more!
Emphasis in Teaching Reading through Strong Literature-Based Books
15 Hours of Small Group Instruction
*Grades 3 through 8
*8-10 students per group
*Course meets Monday through Friday (4:30-6:00 pm)
*2 Week Sessions
*Classes formed according to grade levels
*Session 1 meets June 14th through June 25th
* Computer lab utilized for speed reading techniques
*Diagonostic testing included
* Cost is $150.00 per session
The Program Will Teach Each Participant To:
* Utilize sustained silent reading
* Learn to imporve vocabulary skills
* Choose reading mateerial that fostsers motivation to read
* Help students read with a purpose
* Benefit from oral book reading, done in the contest of sharing
* Improve comprehension by removing roadblocks before students read
* Learn specific comprehension skills throuogh reading, main ideas, and details, organizational patterns, predicting outcomes, QAR strategy, cause and effect, inferences and drawing conclusions.
* Explore reading strategies through story-based discussions
* Utilize background experiences (prior knowledge)
* Learn the concept of reading rates through speed reading techniques
* Help students read with critical evaluation
Individual Tutoring
Instruction
Grades:
All levels-All Subjects
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Course
Meets: Hourly basis |
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Individual
Instruction: One student per instructor Programs designed for home-schooled students |
Course
Description
Program is designed to meet specific needs and learning styles of each student. Individual testing is administered prior to instruction. On staff certified special education teachers are available.
| Computer lab available for enrichment and reinforcement of skills |
| Cost: $46.00 per hour (elementary/middle/high school level) |
| All subject areas |
| June 14th through August 19th |
Learning
How to Study and Reading Strategies Workshop Grades:
3 - 12
Emphasis on Comprehension, Vocabulary Improvement,and Study Skills Strategies
| "20" Hours of Small Group Instruction | |
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Course Meets: Monday through Friday (3:30 - 5:30 p.m.) | |
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Two Week Sessions | |
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8 - 10 students per group | |
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Classes formed according to grade levels | |
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Session 3: August 2nd- August 13th | |
Course
Description
The program will teach each participant to:
| Study more effectively, retain information longer, think creatively, set goals and solve learning problems |
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Learn FCAT instructional thinking strategies and learn how to apply FCAT strategies |
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Practice read/think/explain strategy (FCAT) |
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Use
critical reading in meaningful context |
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Learn vocabulary strategies |
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Read and interpret questions accurately |
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Learn comprehension strategies (Read more effectively and accurately) |
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Develop
flexibility in reading rates |
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Develop
an appreciation of reading through literary genres |
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Understand
individual learning style |
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Learn organization techniques |
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Apply
time management techniques at school and at home |
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Read for meaning (Note taking techniques) |
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Build
a systematic way of writing reports |
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Take
tests and score higher on them |
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Develop
memory strategies |
| Solve his or her own learning problems |
| Computer Lab available for enrichment and reinforcement of skills |
| Diagnostic testing and evaluation included |
| Cost: $175.00 per session |
Kids Who Read Succeed Grades: Kindergarten, First Grade
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Course Meets: Monday through Friday (1:30 - 3:30 p.m.) |
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Two Week Sessions |
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Session 1: June 14th - June 25th |
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Session 3: August 2nd- August 13th |
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8 - 10 students per group |
Course Description
Developing reading, language, writing, and creativity in young children. Program explores developmentally appropriate activities which foster creativity, promote literacy, and build self-esteem, including:
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Integrated phonics activities |
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Exploring fun oral language activities |
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Developing balanced reading and writing approaches |
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Developing a vocabulary in oral and written language |
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Engaging children in delightful literature (Books Alive!) |
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Developing fine and gross motor skills |
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Developing an understanding that reading for meaning is paramount |
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Cost: $175.00 per session |
Writing Well Workshop Grades: 4 - 10
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Course Meets: Monday through Friday (5:30 - 7:00 p.m.) |
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Two Week Session |
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Session 2: July 5th through July 16th |
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8 - 10 Students per group |
Course Description
Promotes the integration of
reading and writing with listening, speaking, and thinking skills. Program will focus on specific strategies needed for students to become competent writers and break through writers block.
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Teaching Pre-Writing Strategies |
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Working
with prompts (The writing situation and directions for writing) |
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Development of an organizational pattern in writing (Beginning, middle, end, and transitional devices) |
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Focusing
on the assigned topic and development of supporting ideas |
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Teach 5 paragraph essay |
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Increasing
sentence variety |
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Correction
of spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar errors |
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Teaching expository, narrative and persuasive writing |
| Teaching editing techniques |
| Cost: $150.00 per session |
SAT Preparation Grades: High School Students
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Course meets: One evening per week (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.) |
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8 weeks (16 total hours) |
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8 - 10 students per group |
Course Description
Instructors
certified in both English and Math. Test taking techniques taught,
progress charted and weaknesses detected and corrected. Review of skill
concepts and question types covering the new SAT test: analogies, vocabulary in context,
sentence completion, comprehension and critical reading and written essay. Mathematical
concepts are covered in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data analysis, statistics, and probability .
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Diagnostic testing included |
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First class night: Wednesday, June 23rd |
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Cost: $400.00 |
Reading
Mastery Skills Program Grades: 2 - 5
A program designed to give reluctant readers a whole new chance. Intended for challenged readers
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Course Meets: Monday through Friday (3:30 - 5:30 p.m.) |
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20 hours of small group instruction |
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Two week sessions |
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Session I: June 14th - June 25th |
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Session III: August 2nd- August 13th |
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8 - 10 students per class |
Course Description
A program designed to give reluctant readers a whole new chance. Program intended for students who are at least three months below grade level. Program will enhance specific strategies needed for comprehension, decoding and vocabulary development.
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Solves common reading problems of little recall, limited attention span, and failure to read and remember |
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Provides extensive practice in word attack skills (blending practice, decoding, and sounding out) |
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Builds sight vocabulary through use of books, newspapers, and magazines |
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Teaches literal and inferential comprehension strategies |
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Develops higher order thinking and comprehension skills |
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Introduces the writing process focusing on the various forms of writing |
| Cost $175.00 per session |
Math
Workshops -
Math Mysteries Solved
Make sure your student has a solid foundation in math!
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Grades 3 - 4 - 5 |
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Grades 6 - 7 - 8 |
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Grades 9 - 10 |
Course Description Intermediate Grades - There will be long division, multiplication, reducing, multiplying, dividing fractions, and a concise understanding of word problems. (Emphasis will be placed on FCAT grade level curriculum.) Come be a "summer detective" which will make your child a lifelong math scholar!
Middle and High School Grades - There will be a review of number concepts and operations, measurement, geometry, and spatial sense, algebraic thinking, and data analysis and probability. Test taking strategies and sample FCAT questions will be reviewed.
Course Meets: Monday through Friday |
Two week session |
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Session 2: July 5th- July 16th |
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5:30 - 7:00 p.m. (Grades 3 - 10) |
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8 - 10 students per group |
| Cost $150.00 Per Session |
Speed reading for better grades grades 7-12
A New Program designed to double or triple your present rate of reading
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Course meets 1 hour per week
8 Hours of Instruction
Requires 60 minute of daily practice
Sessions June 14th- August 19th
Cost $46.00 per hour
The Program Will Teach Each Participaant To:
Read faster with greater comprehension and retention
Adjust reading rate to purpose in reading
Learn to read in thought units (eye-movements)
Learn to be an efficient reader (flexibility in reading rates)
Apply skimming and scanning techniques
Keep daily records of your progress
Computer lab utilized for speed reading techniques
READING FOR UNDERSTANDING
A strategy based reading program
Sessions II : Meets July 5th - July 16th
Cost $150.00
Grades 3rd-10th
8 - 10 students per group
Course meets : Monday through Friday
2 week sessions
Classes formed according to grade level
3:30 - 5:30 pm
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Programs will teach each participant to:
Think while reading
Understand how different text require particular strategies
Identifies task and sets purpose
Chooses appropriate strategies for the reading situation
Monitor comprehension
Develops a postive attitude towards reading