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The Learning Resource Center values students of all ages! We have something for everyone. We offer tutoring in all academic areas including reading, writing, subject areas, study skills, test prep and more! We also have an adult program in computer literacy. Call to discuss your needs—914-218-8506. See below for full details of all our programs! |
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Individual Services Offered |
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Phonemic awareness and letter/sound knowledge are essential skills in learning to read and spell. This game focused program incorporates a multisensory approach to solidify a student’s ability to identify a letter and its corresponding sound, recognize and produce rhymes, segment words into individual sounds and blend sounds to make words. |
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Pre-reading |
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This program provides direct instruction to explain the reading code. It incorporates a systematic, multisensory approach to teach letter/sound correspondences, introduce decoding skills and build a sight word vocabulary. It specifically teaches the behaviors of successful readers, such as using background knowledge, picture clues, prediction, and syntax to enhance comprehension. |
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Early Literacy Skills |
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This program is for the student who understands how reading works but lacks fluency when reading aloud. He expends a lot of energy decoding words and often misses details in the story. Emphasis is on solidifying previously learned decoding skills, learning about prefixes, suffixes and syllabication rules as well as understanding how intonation and expression impact comprehension. |
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Gaining Fluency & Improving Comprehension |
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Picture It is for the student whose decoding skills are intact but has little recall of the story’s events, has difficulty predicting future events or inferring why an event happened. Comprehension of text is increased when there is a visualization of the events in the text and when the reader self-monitors her understanding what is being read. She constantly asks herself, “Does this make sense? Do I know what is going on?” This process is called metacognition. We will teach her to visualize events and to do comprehension checks throughout the story to increase her comprehension and enjoyment of reading. |
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Picture It |
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Learning Resource Center, Inc. |
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"Solutions for All Learners" |
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Do these words rhyme? |
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C-a-t = cat |
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Spelling |
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The English language is comprised of many complex spelling rules, many of which are broken at the drop of a hat. The Learning Resource Center’s spelling program emphasizes learning non-phonetic common words such as “what” and “people” as well as common spelling patterns for vowels –“a-e”, “ai”, “ay”, and “eigh” for long “a”. This program will improve the student’s phonemic awareness and offers multisensory, direct instruction of common spelling rules such as what to do when adding suffixes to root words ending with “e”. |
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The Study Skills program is for the student who is frequently disorganized, loses, can’t find or doesn’t turn in completed assignments. He needs to learn how to study for a test and create a schedule to complete school projects. We will work with each student to develop a plan to increase his executive function skills and make his home and school life more organized, manageable and pleasant. |
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Study Skills/Executive Function |
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Writing Skills |
The writing programs range from teaching handwriting skills or keyboarding to preparing expository, research or creative writing pieces. We help students organize their thoughts and expand their sentences to make them more precise and interesting to the audience. |
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Attention & Focusing Skills |
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We are certified providers of Interactive Metronome® Therapy (IM). IM provides a structured, goal-oriented process that challenges the client to synchronize a range of hand and foot exercises to a precise computer-generated reference tone heard through headphones. The client attempts to match the rhythmic beat with repetitive motor actions. Over the course of the treatment, clients learn to: · Focus and attend for longer periods of time · Increase physical endurance and stamina · Filter out internal and external distractions · Improve ability to monitor mental and physical actions as they are occurring · Progressively improve coordinated performance. |
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Homeschool Support |
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The Learning Resource Center, Inc. wants to support your decision to homeschool your child. We can assist you with homeschooling in a number of ways:
Full time Curriculum Instruction: We can teaching the entire curriculum to your child on a daily basis.
Part time Course Instruction: We can tutor only selected courses of your child’s curriculum. Ex. reading, writing, etc.
Consultant: We can work with you, as the teacher, to discuss the curriculum you have chosen and different teaching strategies to ensure your child’s success. |
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Testimonial: "Laura Rice has been a tremendous help in teaching my child how to read. She has employed a number of techniques in teaching. This allows her to match the right technique to the right child."
Parent of a 2nd grade student student |
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Test Preparation - SSAT - Secondary School Admissions Test ISEE - Independent School Entrance Examination SAT - college entrance exam ACT - college entrance exam |
We suggest an eight week (16 hour) test preparation course. The course includes practice tests, vocabulary and math skill development and proven test-taking strategies. The course, along with interim homework assignments will maximize your score and your chances of being admitted to the school of your choice. Pick your test date and call us to schedule your sessions. We don’t have a course schedule, we accommodate to your availability! |
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Referrals to Other Specialists |
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The Learning Resource Center takes pride in knowing the best practitioners in the area. If your needs are outside the scope of our services, we have a database of specialists and practitioners in the Mount Kisco area. Call to find a speech therapist, psychologist, occupational therapist, psychiatrist or camp for your child. |
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Computer Literacy Lessons for Adults |
Learn to use the computer to enhance your life. Choose what you’d like to learn— e-mail, word processing, graphics programs, or photo and file management. These one-on-one sessions are individualized to your skill level. No question is too basic and we can use your computer or ours. |
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Testimonial: “There are no words to express our deep feelings of appreciation for teaching and guiding our son with the Interactive Metronome program with such great care and devotion. Now that we are done, we can proudly say we see a big difference in our son and he is succeeding in every way” Samuel’s Family |