Tutoring and Remediation

• Reading readiness

• Reading comprehension

• Phonetic decoding

• Writing- composition at all levels

• Handwriting for ease and fluency

• Math concepts and strategies from kindergarten to Algebra

Note:  Patricia utilizes HillWrite and HillRAP materials from The Hill Center.  While she is not Hill Center certified, she completed a 5-day literacy workshop there. She also completed 3 days of training with Jan Olsen, developer of the Handwriting Without Tears program and uses those materials to support student writing.  

Academic Enrichment for Gifted Students

• Grammar and language structure

  • parts of speech,

  • phrases,

  • clauses and

  • parts of a sentence

• Poetics/Poetics of Prose

• Academic Writing

• Advanced Math Concepts and Problem Solving (challenge without rote practice).

• Patricia has attended several workshops with Michael Clay Thompson over the years and uses his excellent language arts materials to teach grammar and sentence analysis as well as poetics.    

• Advanced, gifted math students, often appreciate novel, fast-moving content without much repetition.  For them, we often incorporate the works of Edward Zaccaro.  A student once observed about his Challenge Math book, "The cool thing about this book is you have to learn what's in the chapter before you can answer the questions!"  

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Homework Support

• Project planning

• Editing and revising

• Understanding math concepts

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