Our Curriculum
The Orton Gillingham Approach
✎ Reading instruction at Enriched is based upon the Orton Gillingham Approach.
✎ This is an explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to students, such as those with dyslexia. It is most properly understood and practiced as an approach, not a method, program, or system, as every learner has different needs, and the approach has exceptional depth and flexibility when implemented by a seasoned instructor.
✎ Orton-Gillingham practitioners design lessons and materials to work with students where they are at. Students with language disorders need to master the same basic knowledge about language and its relationship to our writing system as any who seek to become competent readers and writers; however, because of their disorders, they need more help than most people in sorting, recognizing, and organizing the raw materials of language for thinking and use. Language elements must be taught directly and systematically.
Kindergarten Readiness
✎ Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten teachers at Enriched address all the foundational skills necessary to be successful in kindergarten with their students.
✎ These skills include phonemic awareness, number sense, visual/spatial reasoning, cause and effect relationships, patterning, sequencing, fine motor skills, general knowledge, executive functioning skills, taking initiative, social pragmatics, receptive and expressive language, cooperative play, higher level thinking, and abstract reasoning.
✎ The Kindergarten Readiness Curriculum prepares your student to enter kindergarten with the necessary skills for success, making it a seamless transition from the primary years.
Advanced Reading & Writing Skills
✎ As students move beyond the the foundation of reading acquired in elementary school, the expectation is that they exhibit higher order thinking skills and become competent writers.
✎ Our Advanced Reading and Writing Curriculum incorporates advanced phonetic concepts, such as morphology, alongside reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. Students working with a Reading and Writing Enriched Tutor will learn not only how to break apart longer, more difficult multi-syllabic words, but they will also gain a foundation in prefixes and affixes that will help them become better readers and writers throughout their educational journey, well into the later middle school years. This curriculum also teaches students how to write a sound paragraph response as well as a five-paragraph analytical essay. Written work is encouraged to display a thoughtful, critical analysis of the text at hand, focusing on plot, setting, characterization, theme, main idea, tone and other literary conventions. Non-fiction, poetry, news articles, artwork, songs, plays, and other genres are skillfully woven throughout instruction, to enable students to learn to interpret varied media as well as they would any work of fiction.