Program Goals
The primary goal of Reading Explorers is to provide a quality, developmentally appropriate, early childhood education program for young children and their parents. I believe that early childhood education should excite curiosity, stimulate creativity, encourage the development of problem-solving skills, and expand a child’s skills to participate effectively in the world in which he/she lives. Reading Explorers strives to:
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Improve a child’s language, phonological awareness, and literacy skills.
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Best prepare young children for the literacy and academic demands of elementary school.
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Empower families to become model language and literacy users through parent training, education, and a lending library, so that parents may be their child’s “first and best teachers”.
Parent Training
I recognize that parents/caregivers are a child’s “first and best teachers”, therefore, parents will receive hands- on instruction on a variety of topics including:
Language Development
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Choosing good literature
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How to read aloud
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Asking questions
Literacy Development
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Print awareness
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Phonological awareness
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Creating reading materials for the early reader
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Reading strategies
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Developing home word walls
Writing Skills Development
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Creating multi-sensory writing experiences
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Drawing to read
Parents will also have the opportunity to meet and interact with other parents sharing their interests in literature and developing children with strong academic skills.
Curriculum
Reading Explorers offers a research based and unique curriculum which focuses on learning letters, their corresponding sounds, and blending sounds into words through children’s stories, sensory experiences, phonological awareness activities, drawing, and music.
Schedule (75 minutes)
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10 minutes - Opening Exercises/songs
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25 minutes – Interactive Alphabet Story
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20 minutes – Phonological Awareness games and/or activities
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20 minutes - Drawing, writing or reading skill development games and/or activities
Home Program
Parents and children will receive an additional packet of activities for home instruction each week.
Enrollment
Children ages 4 to 6 years of age and a caregiver are invited to enroll. The children:
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May have typical speech and language development
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May have specific speech/language/learning difficulties
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May be English as a second language learners
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May show precocious interest in reading
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May be struggling to learn academic concepts related to reading
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May attend private, public or home schools
Classes Offered
Classes run 60-75 minutes in length and specific times can be arranged by family or groups.
Tuition
Individual Rates
These classes are held with a single child and their parent/caregiver.
$40 per 60 minute session
$5 per session material fee.
Total - $45 per session.