Summer Workshops and Tutoring

 

Study Skills Workshop

Study skills are vital to helping a child study effectively and achieve. Our study skills program provides the necessary tools to help your child learn to manage materials and time; and they will learn strategies to make the most of the education provided. Our study skills program teaches

·       Learning styles

·       Organization

·       Time management

·       Effective Reading and Studying Strategies

·       Efficient Note-Taking

·       Memory Strategies

 ·      Test Taking Strategies

Students will leave the workshop with a battery of tools to take on the new school year.

 

Summer Reading Workshops

Each of these one hour week long workshops will be assigned one of the books students have been assigned for summer by their various schools.

·       Students will begin by planning their reading by creating a schedule for it. This scheduling process will teach them a planning process they can use again and again future assignments.

·       The remaining time will be spent discussing the books’ components: characters, plot, themes, and vocabulary.

·       Students will learn to annotate and keep dialectical journals, as well as reading journals, to reference when school resumes in the fall.

These classes will be offered at both the beginning of the summer for those who want to get the work out of the way and at the end of summer for those who didn’t get the opportunity earlier but need some extra support.

 

Vocabulary Building Workshop: Advance Prep for the Standardized Test¹

This workshop is offered to both the middle school student preparing to take the ISEE or the HSPT and to the high school student preparing to take the SAT or the ACT.
Most preparation courses for standardized tests incorporate vocabulary building into their curric-ula, but few focus on it.
This workshop will focus solely on acquiring vocabulary!
Students will

•    Learn Greek and Latin Word parts
•    Read novels designed to improve vocabulary
•    Play vocabulary games
•    Drill
•    Learn how to create mnemonics to remember vocabulary
•    Practice the verbal parts of the tests they plan to take; this includes analogies and sentence completions.
•    Prepare a study plan to acquire the greatest number of words prior to their testing.

Classes will be offered several times throughout the summer. A class must have four people to make.

 

Essay Writing with Inspiration™¹

In Middle and High School, students are often expected to write a standard five-paragraph essay. Just as often, they have a difficult time getting started. This five-day class will teach them the essential elements of writing the standard essay using the program Inspiration™.
In this Workshop, students will

•    Learn/review the structure of a five paragraph essay
•    Learn how to develop a thesis
•    Learn how to use Inspiration™ to write essays using webbing and outlines.
•    Use summer reading to write a strong analytical essay

Classes will be offered several times throughout the summer. A class must have four people to make.
See schedule for times and prices.

 

Managing Your First Year of College¹

The biggest problem students have in their first year of college is figuring out what to do with all the “spare” time. This course leads students through a series of strategies and skills to help them structure their first year away from home.
Students will learn strategies for

•    Organization
•    Time Management
•    Resource Management
•    Reading Comprehension
•    Retaining Information
•    Taking Tests

Students will walk away from this week with a plan for the semester: a schedule that includes classes, study time, meals, recreation and chores.

 

Writing the College Essay

Essay writing can be scheduled for either a small group or for individuals.

Students going into their senior year in high school need to think about where they intend to go to college and part of that process is writing the impressive college essay.

Students will learn what is expected and be led through the brainstorming to get started on a winning college essay.

If you are interested in a workshop separate from the ones we offer, we will arrange it for 4 to 6 people.

At the conclusion of the initial 8-hour workshop, time can be scheduled for further one-on-one editing.

 

Summer Tutoring

In addition to usual educational therapy

 

Summer Reading

Structured support for summer reading providing the same help as the workshops is also available one on one.

 

Summer School

Academic and organizational support for the summer school classes your child is taking.

 

Remediation

As we offer it through the academic school year, we are available during the summer for one-on-one custom academic preparation for upcoming classes to either remediate or propel the student to success.

 

“Brain Training”

New for the Clinic, we are offering an approach to help improve processing, attention, memory, and retrieval speed. Contact us for further information.

 

 

Academic and organizational support for summer school.

 

 

 

¹See schedule for times and prices.

 

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