Is your child facing challenges with reading and writing,
or are you aiming to enhance their literacy skills?
Whether your child has a formal dyslexia diagnosis or you suspect some challenges,
we understand that the journey can be overwhelming.
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At Rosedale Readers, we're here to make it less confusing
& more empowering.
Rosedale Readers is
a private & personalized tutoring service
We offer individualized tutoring tailored for all age groups, focusing on reading, writing, and spelling. We use an inspired Orton - Gillingham approach, employing the highly effective Barton System to tailor our assistance to individual needs.
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After completing our program, students can expect to leave with outstanding confidence and self-esteem, reading and writing skills above grade level, and an overall improved performance at school. Students will develop a positive attitude toward learning, strengthened independence, and the freedom to ask questions—empowering them to become self-directed, responsible learners for life.
what we do
Supporting struggling readers.
Rosedale Readers recognizes the challenges faced by struggling readers and spellers in classrooms, where school curriculum interventions may not be effectively implemented despite educators' good intentions.
With a commitment to building confident learners and closing literacy gaps, our tutoring approach is grounded in the evidence-based Barton Reading & Spelling program. This multi-sensory method provides explicit, structured, and systematic support tailored to the needs of struggling readers. In addition to the Barton program, we integrate other proven literacy exercises to help establish the strong foundations necessary for lifelong reading and writing success.
prior to joining
Students commonly encounter the following challenges:
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Having difficulty with class spelling tests, they often find them exceptionally challenging. The retention of sight words which poses a persistent on going struggle.
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Despite their intelligence, creativity, and cleverness, many students express a dislike for reading and represent a lack of confidence in their academic abilities.
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When confronted with unfamiliar words, students face difficulty in sounding them out, regardless of the amount of phonics instruction they have received in the past.
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While their writing reflects creativity, their spelling tends to be more inventive than accurate.
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Although capable of reading, students may exhibit a tendency towards slowness and inaccuracies, often resorting to "guessing" words as they navigate through text.
as a member of R.R.
Your child will receive the following:
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1-1 Instruction with a trained Orton-Gillingham educator
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Phonics exercises to promote memory, comprehension & reading
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Written progress reports & feedback after each level, or on request
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Complimentary progress report to school teacher, on request
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Extra practice worksheets per level, on request
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Parent support & resources ๏ปฟ
Myth vs Fact
Sadly, most children with dyslexia are never identified – in part, due to persistent myths about dyslexia, including:
Myth: You can’t have dyslexia because you can read.
Fact:ย All children and adults with dyslexia can readโup to a point. But auditory processing problems prevent them from hearing all the individual sounds in a word. So they donโt read by sounding out. Instead, they use alternative strategies: context clues (pictures and a predictable or familiar story), the shapes of words, and guessing based on the first letter or two, but their memories can hold only a limited number of words. So these strategies will fail them by third or fourth grade. Without the right type of help, they can not progress any furtherโno matter how smart they are and how hard they try. Such reading failure is preventable โ if they are taught to read differently โ using the Barton Reading & Spelling System. It teaches children and adults with dyslexia to read and spell at the mid-ninth grade level. Thatโs considered adult reading level in our society. A ninth-grade-level reader can pass the GED, and continue to higher education.
MYTH: Dyslexia means you see things backwards.
Fact: If it were that simple, we could solve the problem by having people with dyslexia hold their books in front of a mirror. Research has proven that people with dyslexia do NOT see things backwards.
MYTH: Dyslexia is rare.
Fact: According to the latest dyslexia research from the National Institutes of Health, dyslexia affects 20% of North Americans (and about the same percentage of people in other countries). Thatโs one out of every five children. Dyslexia can range from mild to severe. Dyslexia can come by itself or with Attention Deficit Disorder. In fact, if you know someone with ADD/ADHD who also has difficulty with spelling, writing, or memorizing multiplication tables, that person may also have dyslexia.
