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A Proven Approach to The Science of Reading
Pressure-Free Reading! Our engaging, evidence-based approach to reading has been proven to strengthen the foundational building blocks of your child’s language development, literacy skills, love for learning, and self-confidence.
Your child is invited into a literacy-rich environment where explicit reading instruction and hands-on learning support the development of neurological pathways that strengthen reading skills and strategies. Your child’s strengths, learning style, and areas of concern become the foundation for each session.
Backed by neuroscience and the latest research in The Science of Reading and the Orton-Gillingham Approach, we invite your child to a transformational learning experience that weaves essential language skills into meaningful, connected reading lessons with our 30+ year Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT), extensively trained as a Reading Specialist.
A Proven Approach to Your Child’s Reading Success offers a fresh perspective on creating an empowering reading experience. Grounded in the Science of Reading and informed by the Orton-Gillingham Approach, our program supports brain development through explicit, multi-sensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, diagnostic, and prescriptive reading instruction. Using an evidence-based approach, we foster meaningful literacy development through personalized lessons that are thoughtfully adapted to meet your child’s unique learning needs. Through literacy-rich experiences, your child will build the essential foundations for language development, literacy, and reading success with confidence.
Why The Science of Reading Matters
At The Playful Child we’ve created a space where successful reading experiences unfold from within explicit science of reading instruction ~ where reading strategies, research-based practices, and child-specific lessons unfold. Our unique environment aligns your child with brain-science and a multi-sensory learning experience! We nourish oral language through playfully embedded instructional talk layering critical language skills, vocabulary development, and oral narrative competencies into the context of solid reading instruction.
Emerging from direct instruction and uniquely playful connections around storytelling, multi-sensory experiences, language comprehension, sequencing, retelling, and inferencing, to name a few, your child will embrace a love for reading that stays with them for life. Building upon alphabet knowledge, letter-sound fluency, phonological and phonemic awareness, word recognition, oral reading fluency, and other essential literacy fundamentals, your child will develop literacy skills that enhance reading.
Your Child Will Soar!
With the science of reading and the Orton Gillingham-informed approach interwoven into a multi-sensory, playful approach, your child will experience a literacy-rich environment that cultivates the confidence of your engaged reader. With our science-proven reading program, your child will soar as we foster lifelong literacy foundations that will strengthen their fundamentals of reading.
Your child will develop language skills, vocabulary development, and fluency in reading as they actively practice reading strategies, share reflective conversations, and dive into phonological and phonemic understandings, reading fluency, comprehension, and so much more.
Through playful interactions and instructional practices rooted in the science of reading, your child will experience an enriched literacy program that encourages a variety of emergent literacy behaviours that support your ever-evolving literate child. Experience our fresh take on reading!
One-on-One Reading Support: The Science of Reading & The Orton-Gillingham Approach
Your child is taught by a 30+ year Ontario Certified Teacher and Reading Specialist.
Lessons focus on building confidence, knowledge, and reading strategies to navigate the complex skill of reading.
Our explicit instructional lessons are designed to align with your child's unique learning style & developmental needs.
One-on-One Reading Support: The Science of Reading & The Orton-Gillingham Approach
Your child is taught by a 30+ year Ontario Certified Teacher and Reading Specialist.
Lessons focus on building confidence, knowledge, and reading strategies to navigate the complex skill of reading.
Our explicit instructional lessons are designed to align with your child's unique learning style & developmental needs.
Embracing The Science of Reading and
The Orton-Gillingham Approach,
Each lesson is carefully created to foster solid reading foundations that empower your child throughout their learning journey.
By reservation only.
Registration is Now Open.
Embracing The Science of Reading and
The Orton-Gillingham Approach,
Each lesson is carefully created to foster solid reading foundations that empower your child throughout their learning journey.
By reservation only.
Registration is Now Open.
A Proven Approach to
Your Child’s Reading Success
Sessions are currently open for booking.
Reach out for further information.
Location
Conveniently located in Windsor-Essex County
Duration
Each session runs for 30 minutes.
A Proven Approach to
Your Child’s Reading Success
Sessions are currently open for booking.
Reach out for further information.
Location
Conveniently located in Windsor-Essex County
Duration
Each session runs for 30 minutes.
"Once you learn to read,
you will be forever free."
Frederick Douglass
FAQ
The Science of Reading is an evidence-based approach that combines decades of research with neuroscience to help children develop strong reading and literacy skills. It strengthens essential foundations such as phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, language development, and reading comprehension.
The Orton-Gillingham-informed approach uses structured, sequential, multi-sensory, and explicit instruction to help children become confident readers. Every lesson is thoughtfully adapted to support your child's individual learning needs and literacy development.
Our reading program is designed for children who need additional reading support, want to strengthen their literacy skills, or would benefit from a personalized, evidence-based approach that builds confidence and a love of reading.
Every child learns differently. We tailor each lesson to your child's strengths, learning style, and areas of growth, creating a personalized reading experience that supports meaningful progress and long-term reading success.
We combine evidence-based reading instruction with engaging, literacy-rich experiences to help children develop essential reading skills, confidence, and a lifelong love of learning. Every lesson is customized to support each child's individual journey.