Corrective Reading Help

Reading is not only a pleasurable leisure activity; it is an essential skill for success in almost any professional field. Dreamcatcher's unique one-to-one, multisensory teaching method, combined with an efficient, carefully sequenced curriculum, will foster strong reading skills in learners of all ages.

Fundamentals of Reading A

Typical Student: 3rd grade through adult learners who are non-readers.
Students will learn:

To identify letters as sounds
How to blend sounds into words
How to sound out and identify written words
Rhyming
Spelling activities, including dictation
Simple story reading
Worksheet activities (i.e., matching and word completion)
Comprehension activities

Students will leave Fundamentals of Reading A able to read basic sentences and simple stories at the rate of about 60 words per minute. They will have a 90% accuracy rate on words that confuse typical poor readers. The student's faster reading rates will make comprehension activities more feasible.

Fundamentals of Reading B1 and B2

Typical Student: 4th grade through adult learners who misidentify, omit, reverse, and substitute words. These learners guess on the basis of context and pictures, do not read at an adequate rate and tend to confuse words with similar spellings.
Students will learn:

To read and discriminate words containing long and short vowel sounds for a, e, i, and o
To read words with sound combinations
Pattern drills that demonstrate consistent phonetic relationships (i.e., big, bag, beg, bug)
Story reading that focuses on reversal (b-d) problems, commonly confused words and longer sentences
To answer oral, literal and inferential comprehension questions
To write answers to various kinds of written story questions
To follow written directions
Workbook exercises on word attack and comprehension skills

Students will leave Fundamentals of Reading B1 reading 90 words a minute, and Fundamentals of Reading B2 reading 120 words a minute. Students will demonstrate greatly improved reading, fluency, speed and accuracy skills.

Fundamentals of Reading C

Typical Student: 4th grade through adult learners who possess fair reading skills, but who are not fluent readers and tend to make word identification errors. These learners have mastered the basic reading skills, but have trouble with multi-syllabic words and typical textbook material.
Students will learn:

A review of words containing sound combinations
The meanings of more than 500 vocabulary words
Affixes (i.e., ex, ly, un, re, dis, pre, tri, sub, less, ness, able)
To read selections containing a high percentage of new words
To read additional expository selections from magazines, newspapers and similar sources
How to write answers to both literal and inferential comprehension questions

Students will leave Fundamentals of Reading C reading an average of 130 words per minute with an accuracy of 98%. Students will read materials with a wide range of syntax, vocabulary, format and content. They will learn new information and how to apply it after one reading. These students now have confidence; they will read a wide variety of materials with fluency and understanding.