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Small Group Programs

Small Group Orton-Gillingham Lessons

For some students struggling with acquiring language, small group lessons are suitable. While many of our students require 1:1 intervention, some students may work well in a small, carefully matched group of 2 or 3 students with similar skill acquisition needs and similar processing styles.  Contact our centre to find out if there is a group suitable for your child.

Orton-Gillingham Math

This ongoing small group math program caters to the children’s learning needs. Lessons are structured, sequential and use manipulatives to make abstract math concepts more concrete. Orton-Gillingham math is considered an hands-on multisensory approach to math. Call 604.987.6760 for more information about our Orton-Gillingham Math programs.

Writing Skills Program: Level 1

Our small group writing program is designed to help children develop their written language skills.
With systematic, sequential, multisensory teaching, the first module will focus on creating a risk free environment while working on basic grammatical concepts, correct use of punctuation and capitalization, sentence structure and expanded sentences.

Writing Skills Program: Level 2

Our small group writing program is designed to help children develop their written language skills.
With systematic, sequential, multisensory teaching, the second module will focus on creating a risk free environment while working on the structure of a paragraph, types of sentences and types of paragraphs. The students will also work on creative writing skills including listing, identifying setting, use of characters, structure of a short story, and basic poetry elements.

Little Learners Kindy Program

This small group early literacy program has been created to assist 4 to 6 year old students with reading readiness skills.
Students will work on explicit phonological awareness skills including identification of whole words, identification of syllables, phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion and manipulation, and rhyming. Call our center at 604.987.6760 for more information.

Summer Camp at REACH

If your child has been struggling to succeed with basic academic skills, with or without a diagnosed learning difficulty, we may be able to help. Our specialists understand learning difficulties and students who struggle with learning in general. This academic summer camp is designed to help those struggling students clarify some basic skills before returning to school in the fall, and to help prevent the “big slide” in skills that occurs with the long summer vacation.

Each day at summer camp for school aged children includes three specific small group instructional blocks. Our Orton-Gillingham block emphasizes and teaches specific sound/ symbol relationships, common spelling rules and blending sounds or syllables to improve decoding (reading). Our Writing Skills block enlightens our students about parts of speech, the basic structure of sentences or paragraphs (depending on level of group), how to overcome “writer’s block” and brainstorm for ideas, and how to overcome the fear of producing written work. Some students, such as those with diagnosed written output difficulties, will be given strategies to enable their writing, including scribing if necessary.  Our Multisensory Math block works on clarifying basic math skills, according to the level of the group. Math skills are woven into real-world situations so students understand the bigger picture of why these skills are necessary.

Students have two breaks each day, including a snack break and a yoga/ brain gym break, emphasizing strategies for refocusing and overcoming and dealing with anxiety.

With small group instruction in a highly supported environment (just over 3:1 ratio of staff to students), our students experience success while bringing up their skills.

Before a student can acquire reading and spelling skills, their foundation skills must be strong. Our Little Learners summer program is designed to help our kindergarten-aged students with the basic foundations necessary to enable success with literacy. This program provides teaching with specific phonological awareness skills, including each sub-skill. Children work on identifying sounds, placement of sounds and manipulation of sounds in the English language. Games and activities bring in basic sound/ symbol relationships and letter formations, setting our students on the path for success when they return to school in the fall, all while enjoying a summer camp environment.  

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