• emphasis on careful monitoring of comprehension during reading
• extensive opportunity provided for students to reinforce their newly acquired skills through reading high-interest materials that are at an appropriate level of difficulty
• sound-symbol and strategy instruction to help students attempt to spell words in a more structured manner
• instruction on the most consistent spelling rules

Reading comprehension and vocabulary

• direct instruction on comprehending simple, compound, and complex sentences
• students taught to search for key words that highlight the structure of 'cause & effect', 'compare & contrast', 'time-order', and 'definition' sentences and paragraphs
• specific strategies are taught to help students scan for relevant information in text and to link their answer directly to the question
• instruction to assist students in determining the main idea of a paragraph or passage and to locate details that support the main idea
• students are exposed to narrative, expository, persuasive, and informational passages and given opportunity to answer questions of varying levels of complexity
• strategies to help students enhance their ability to infer cause, effect, main idea, word meaning, and to draw reasonable conclusions
• instruction to improve students' ability to understand figurative language – similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles, and personification
• opportunity provided to students to improve oral vocabulary through word study activities and reading of text

• taught the basic parts of speech and how to write grammatically correct simple, compound, and complex sentences
• instruction in proper capitalization and punctuation
• pre-writing activities to help students brainstorm and organize their ideas
• students taught to create well-structured paragraphs and essays using words that signal the structure of their writing
• opportunity to write narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive paragraphs
• instruction on essay and report-writing
• strategies for self-editing written work

• taught basic grammatical elements of a complete thought
• intensive practice at forming sentences and evaluating the clarity of expression
• instruction on organizing thoughts using signal words to make verbal expression more structured and more easily understood
• intensive feedback on the grammatical correctness of verbal expression and on the appropriate choice of words to express a specific idea
• practice responding to questions in complete thoughts/sentences that link directly to the question being asked
• instruction on inferring meaning

• emphasis on understanding rather than memorizing – students are encouraged to search for patterns, visualize, create diagrams, think through the concepts in words before number crunching, and to reflect on the appropriateness of the final answer
• strategies are taught to help students with word problems
• instruction in all areas of the elementary curriculum: number sense and numeration, measurement, geometry and spatial sense, patterning and algebra, data management and probability

HOURS OF OPERATIONS

Monday–Thursday: 3:00 p.m.– 8:30p.m.

Sunday by Appointment: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. in Ajax, Ontario

• After-School Tutoring Services
• Group Elementary Math Classes
• Educational Programs
• Summer Learning Camp
• Special Education
• Elementary Subjects Tutoring
• High School Math
• High School Chemistry
• High School Physics
• High School English
• High School History
• High School Biology