"To learn to read is to light a fire." - Victor Hugo

At The Booklight, we work to meet the individual literacy needs of each child.

 

Our Mission

Our mission is to nurture the literacy growth of each individual student by improving literacy instruction and designing lessons that are meaningful, engaging, effective and fun.  We use a comprehensive approach and evidence-based curricula to address all components of literacy in order to foster the development of lifelong readers and thinkers.

HOW WE CAN HELP

We provide individualized services to meet the unique needs of your budding reader!  At The Booklight we:

  • Provide Dyslexia Therapy by a Certified Academic Language Therapist - Trainee Affiliate to those diagnosed with dyslexia, ages 7-adult.

  • Offer consultation services to schools looking to improve their literacy programs. Our consultation services can include:

    • Collaborating with administrators to assess the current literacy program and develop a plan for improvements

    • Writing curriculum and recommending materials that support research-based best practices

    • One-on-one literacy coaching with teachers of grades K-3. One on one literacy coaching includes setting individual professional learning goals, analyzing assessment data, planning instruction, modeling and co-teaching lessons followed up debriefing and reflection, and lesson observation with focused and specific feedback.

    • Providing professional development for teachers through seminars and workshops.

We can also work with schools, families, and community groups to tailor a program specifically for you. Some examples may include:

  • Providing individual consultations to families looking to create a home environment that fosters literacy development.

  • Working with schools and parent groups to conduct home literacy education workshops aimed to provide families with the tools they need to nurture literacy development at home.

Dyslexia Therapy Details

We use the Take Flight Curriculum, a structured literacy program that is evidence-based. During our sessions, we will use Orton-Gillingham techniques and current best practices to:

  • Strengthen phonological awareness skills through multi-sensory games and riddles.

  • Develop reading fluency through lesson aspects that focus on automaticity and prosody.

  • Uncover phonics patterns through a structured literacy approach, which is explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory.

  • Examine roots and affixes to aid in vocabulary understanding.

  • Foster comprehension development with techniques to improve thinking before, during, and after reading.

  • Improve spelling using a comprehensive word-study approach.

  • Strengthen writing skills through strategy instruction and model texts.

  • Connect all components of literacy to aid in the development of lifelong readers and thinkers.