Reading Program
Beyond Basics has developed a reading program which has seen 100% of the student participants improve in their reading abilities. Additionally, 95% of students made advancements in their grade level reading. We have developed a program that uniquely integrates a variety of methods and specifically targets the population of students that Beyond Basics seeks to serve.
In our Reading Program students are tutored for a one-hour intensive session five days a week. The program focuses on phonetic strategies and integrates those skills through reinforcing them with books coordinated to the concepts the students are learning. These strategies help children learn the sound systems necessary to decode the majority of words in the English language. The skills and concepts that are taught each day are reinforced through a variety of techniques, such as spelling and reading non-sense words. Students also read books that highlight the skills and techniques they have learned in their lesson for the day.
Beyond Basics also utilizes a variety of comprehension strategies that help students to recall what they have read.
Beyond Basics is also able to integrate volunteers or Reading Buddies into the Reading Program as well. Reading Buddies work with students who have graduated from the Reading Program to practice and reinforce the skills which they have learned in the program.
Beyond Basics has found this rigorous Reading Program to be absolutely successful. The majority of our students have achieved grade level reading or higher after six to eight weeks of this intensive one-on-one tutoring.
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