Milestones for reading and writing success
Early Reading : Kindergarten – 2nd grade:
Master phonological awareness
Acquire the phonics system
Develop a large sight word vocabulary
Acquire the rules for syllabication
Become fluent readers
Form mental images as they listen and read
Begin to read for meaning
The transition to comprehension
Third grade and up:
Master the rules for syllabication
Transcend the need to decode many words
Concentrate on meaning
Image concepts as they read
Perform critical thinking skills like inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions
Monitor and question their understanding
Make connections with the text
Developing written expression
Kindergarten—1st grade: Children use invented spelling to write notes and short stories.
By 2nd grade: Children use conventional spelling and write book summaries.
3rd grade and above: Children write answers to essay questions, persuasive papers and research papers.
Will children catch up without professional help?
Children very seldom catch up once they fall behind unless there is intervention and remediation. Good readers add 2000-3000 words to their sight word vocabularies each year. Once slow readers get behind, the only way they can reach grade level is to learn faster than their peers are learning during the same period of time. This requires intensive, scientifically proven intervention. By 3rd grade, children must be reading to learn and writing to think, rather than learning to read and write.
Treatment will help your children to:
Master the phonics system
Learn the rules for syllabication
Improve their spelling skills
Expand their sight word vocabularies
Read fluently at or above grade level
Visualize images as they read
Concentrate on higher order thinking skills like inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions
Transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn”
Write book summaries and essays
Master textbook skills like finding main ideas and supporting details
Master study skills like making outlines and taking notes
Write answers to essay questions
Write persuasive and research papers
Compute math facts
Solve math story problems
Improve their grades and self-esteem
Our staff
The speech, language and educational therapists at Jodie K. Schuller & Associates are licensed by the State of California and certified by the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). Many are also professional members of the Association of Educational Therapists. Our therapists have master’s degrees in communicative disorders and have taken postgraduate training in the Wilson Reading System (Orton-Gillingham), the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®, including Visualizing and Verbalizing®, the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program, Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery™, and On Cloud 9™ Math. They have also attended training programs at the Landmark School for children who have language-based learning disabilities.