Summit Reading Center LLC

Our focus is on the fundamental skills that make up the foundation of learning and thinking. Many students who do poorly in school have weaknesses in these fundamentals, making school harder than it should be. Does your child's teacher suggest that your student needs to try harder? Does your student seem to lack motivation? Or struggle unnecessarily with their schoolwork? By enrolling in a program at Summit, your student will learn new ways to problem solve, access content, and maintain focus. These are valuable skills that prepare your student for success in the classroom and beyond!

The following are among the highly effective, research-validated programs we offer:

Literacy is the foundation of all learning. First, students must master the basic skills of reading and comprehension before they can learn content in other subjects such as science, history, and math. If a student is not reading and comprehending effectively by the end of 2nd grade, they will fall further and further behind their peers.

Reading is a complex process of decoding symbols, recognizing words, and comprehending meaning. A weakness in any area of the reading process hinders fluency and access to meaning. Our reading program begins with the Seeing Stars® program, which is designed to stimulate symbol imagery, or the ability to visualize letters. This skill is essential for learning to recognize sight words and for improving rate and fluency while reading. The program teaches students to generate mental pictures for letters and words and to identify the corresponding sounds. This increases orthographic processing (spelling and recognizing sight words). 

Comprehension skills are required for critical thinking, expression and problem solving.

At Summit, we use the Visualizing and Verbalizing® program to systematically teach students to create mental pictures from language, then to recall, organize, and verbalize about the language. Using the tools of concept imagery, students develop vocabulary, increase memory and focus, comprehend story problems in math and express themselves concisely, orally and in writing.

If reading is decoding, spelling is encoding, or the ability to put letters to sounds. At Summit, we take a structured approach to teaching spelling. Using the Seeing Stars® and LIPS® programs, spelling instruction is focused around a series of expectancies or rules that bring awareness to the way words and letters look, sound, and feel. We then incorporate instruction in the meaning of words and word parts through the study of morphemes, or the smallest parts of words that convey meaning. Students learn to attend to the parts of words, how they look and what they mean to increase spelling abilities.

The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® program, also known as the LiPS® program, was developed to help students become better readers and spellers by providing them with new tools for perceiving the identity, number and order of sounds within words through multi-sensory techniques. It teaches students to become aware of the way sounds feel inside their mouths.

Writing is the expressive component to language. Students enrolled in our writing program are taught to visualize and structure their ideas through concept imagery, then apply self-monitoring skills in order to write effectively.

Most students who are struggling with math are missing the basic foundational math concepts. Using the On Cloud Nine® and Math-U-See programs, students at Summit learn to visualize relationships and build number sense as well as learn math facts and problem solving. These are skills they take to the classroom and beyond.

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Enrolling in a reading, comprehension or math program at Summit is a great way to engage your kids in learning during the summer months!

Our individualized summer programs are popular and will fill up fast! It is not too early to reserve your spot now by phone or e-mailing us at info@summitrc.com.  

"My daughter progressed from not being able to read at all to being one of the top readers in her 1st grade class. I was thrilled with the services that Summit provided to our family."

Find out more about the difficulties with learning on our Learning Problems page.

"...As a child being diagnosed with dyslexia, our son needed a unique approach to learning. Summit Reading Center fulfilled his need. We all had a wonderful experience with wonderful results working with everyone at Summit!"       

"...With a brief evaluation,
they were able to show
us empirically where my
son's difficulties lay.
Even better was the level
of confidence they had in
their ability to help him.
They could tailor a program
specifically for his
challenge area, and
not waste time (or money)
on areas he's already mastered..." 

What is a multi-sensory teaching approach?

It means teaching a student to use more than one of his or her senses while learning. This method has proven to be highly effective for all types of learners.  

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