Shred the Box Educational Services

The Individualized Process

  1. All individual children must be screened prior to any services beginning ($50 per hour).

  2. After screening, parents, children, and the teacher will have a consultation session to decide which services best meet the child’s needs ($50 per hour).

  3. After determining your child’s learning style and developing an individualized education program, a link will be sent via email to activate your ($600) Shred the Box Education Membership. After registering for a membership, a minimum of four (4) educational sessions are mandatory to be scheduled each week to ensure your child receives adequate educational instruction. * Due to payment format, all payments must be made monthly via PayPal.

  4. Following introduction, students and parents will be able to communicate face to face through Google Meet or Zoom.

Reading and Writing Services

  • 60 minute session focusing on Reading Decoding

  • 60 minute session focusing on Reading Comprehension

  • 60 minute session with 30 minutes focusing on Reading Decoding and 30 minutes focusing on Reading Comprehension

  • 60 minute session focusing on Writing

Educational Services Provided

After years of teaching reading in the area of decoding, I have discovered that each decoding program is similar (IMSE, Wilson, Lindamood Bell, etc). Decoding is the ability to figure out unknown words. To do this successfully, your child needs to have strong phonics skills so that they can put the sounds together to read the word. While knowing the sounds is vital, they must also know phonics rules, strategies (chunking the word/stretching it out, etc.) and prefixes/suffix. With these skills, the magic of reading begins.

Reading Decoding

I am trained in multiple reading comprehension programs. Two reading programs, Visualizing Verbalizing and Lucy Calkins, have been extremely successful for my students. Reading comprehension is extremely difficult to teach. I believe in using reading materials that your child is interested in and combining it with their life experiences. Wherever their interests are, their experiences are where I try to make comprehension connections. I then weave their strengths such as art, photography, acting, etc. in order to help them begin to comprehend. Graphic organizers are vital in this process in order to learn how to complete higher level comprehension tasks such as summarizing , analyzing, finding the main idea/theme, character traits, change in character and author’s purpose.

Reading Comprehension

If your child does not understand the vocabulary in the text, they will not understand the text. Knowing prefixes and suffixes is important in learning new vocabulary because it will help your child learn new words at a more rapid rate. Implementing other strategies such as drawing the vocabulary word, making it, and graphic organizers aides in your child ability to remember the vocabulary word. As they build their vocabulary skills, comprehension increases.

Reading Vocab

Reading Fluency is an important part of reading comprehension. It is how quickly and smoothly your child can read the given text with correct expression. High frequency words and strong phonics skills are vital for reading fluency. This is a skill that requires your child to memorize high frequency words and practice, practice, practice!!!

Reading Fluency

Developing writing skills is an extremely complex part of the English language. There are multiple skills involved in writing. The most difficult skills are developing ideas, grammar, formulating sentence/paragraphs, staying on topic, and organizing the writing. To accomplish this complex skill, I use graphic organizers, color coding, discussion, and conferring. While developing this skill, your child will write about their specific interests and experiences as I teach them the “formula” for writing.

Writing

Initial Sessions