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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

2010 Summer Seminar Schedule

Our 2010 Summer Seminar schedule is out and we are now enrolling students k-12. Call now to get early registration discounts for your student! 866-949-4776

Word Analysis (K-3rd)
  • Learn and review phonics and spelling skills
  • Practice fluency
  • Learn to decode words according to phonetic rules

Read Ahead: Early Reading Fun (pre-K and K)

  • A fun approach to building early reading skills and kindergarten readiness
  • recognize and write capital and lowercase letters
  • Build listening comprehension strategies
  • Improve phonemic awareness

Write On! Writing Styles (3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th)

Your child will have fun engaging in different roles as an author, while practicing and improving writing skills

  • Discover literary voice
  • Write descriptive, informative and persuasive pieces
  • Write as a newspaper reporter, an advertiser, a movie critic, and more
  • Create and illustrate stories
  • Practice different approaches to pre-writing
  • Create a unique piece of work that reflects personal style

Advanced Reading Skills (7th -12th)

  • Increase reading speed
  • Learn to adjust reading rate for a variety of text
  • Maintain comprehension
  • Prepare for the reading load of high school and college

Organization and Time Management

  • Organize short and long term tasks
  • Set goals
  • Analyze classes and teachers
  • Work with your learning style

Sum Fun

Addition and subtraction math fun. A fun approach for your student to improve understanding of basic addition and subtraction skills, while increasing speed and accuracy

  • Learn strategies to help with addition and subtraction
  • Understand the concept that addition and subtraction are related
  • Increase speed and accuracy of basic addition and subtraction facts
  • Solve simple addition and subtraction word problems

Divide and Conquer

A fun approach for children to improve understanding, speed and accuracy of basic multiplication and division facts

  • Understand the concept of multiplication as repeated addition
  • Identify division facts as they are related to multiplication facts
  • Learn strategies to help learn multiplication facts
  • Increase speed and accuracy of basic multiplication and division facts

Solve This! (3rd - 5th and 6th - 8th)

Math problem solving skills

  • Students will become confident, analytical thinkers and problem solvers
  • Students will explore many option s to solve problems and discuss their tactics with the group

Fraction Action

A fun approach for your student to improve fraction skills, and to develop confidence working with fractions

  • Model and write fractions
  • Add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions with like and unlike denominators
  • Compare and order fractions
  • Find equivalent fractions

Geometry Prep: Get ready for high school geometry!

  • Foundations and reasoning
  • Properties of triangles and circles
  • Similar triangles and transformation

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