Excellence in Education

Excellence in Education

Leigh-ann is a qualified primary teacher with over 10 years experience in literacy intervention and programming, and parent, teacher and teacher-aide training in teaching reading in both the public and private education sectors. Leigh-ann provides provide full reading assessments, then writes an individual intervention plan for your child and then trains the parent/s on how to implement that plan DAILY. Weekly tuition is NOT the answer to improving your child's reading! DAILY, STRATEGIC intervention, aimed at their areas of reading weakness is what research overwhelming proves is the best approach. In the first session, Leigh-ann assesses the child on a variety of measures including a benchmark reading assessment, sight word bank, phonological awareness, sound patterns knowledge, comprehension skills; as well as their understanding and application of the 3 cueing systems critical to effective reading (the grapho-phonic, semantic and syntactic systems). Leigh-ann then collates all the results and writes an individual report and a personally tailored intervention plan for the child, with clear step-by-step tasks that need to be done each day by the parent and child together as they read. The second session is then a training time with the parent/s so that they feel totally confident with how to implement the plan and best support their child's reading. Any follow-up sessions after the training session are then at the discretion of the parents so there is no ongoing costs. Leigh-ann is also available for school, child care or Pre-Prep parent talks on "Helping Your Child Learn To Read". Call Leigh-ann (brisbane's northside) on 0401 134 080 ...read more