Our Method
Our Approach
Child-Centered • Multi-Sensory • Direct & Explicit
At Rosedale Readers, every student is welcomed into a supportive learning community where instruction is tailored to their individual needs.
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Personalized Attention: Lessons are delivered 1-on-1 by trained tutors, ensuring a pace that matches each learner’s unique progress.
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Confidence & Growth: Through positive reinforcement and engaging activities, students build confidence, develop a stronger interest in learning, and gain the skills needed to succeed.
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Specialized Support: Our instruction is especially effective for students with dyslexia, literacy challenges, math difficulties, pre-reading skill gaps, and other learning challenges.
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Key Areas of Focus: We focus deeply on phonemic awareness, sound-symbol relationships, decoding, spelling, reading fluency, and conceptual understanding across literacy and math.
Structured, Evidence-Based Methods
Our programs are built on structured, research-informed teaching methods designed specifically for students who struggle with reading, writing, spelling, or math. Using a systematic, step-by-step approach, each method breaks complex skills into manageable stages, making learning accessible and achievable.
As the foundation of every lesson, this structured approach helps students master essential skills while building confidence and independence. Through multi-sensory instruction, hands-on tools, and proven teaching methods, learners of all ages develop stronger academic skills for long-term success.
How Our Programs Works
Instruction is delivered through one to one classes, either in person or online. Each lesson follows a structured sequence that includes reviewing previous concepts, introducing new skills, guided practice, and building fluency through hands-on exercises tailored to the subject.
Programs are organized into progressive levels or stages, taking students from foundational skills to more advanced concepts at their own pace. Consistent attendance, typically a minimum of two hours per week, is essential for achieving the best results. By combining explicit teaching, multi-sensory learning, and regular practice, students gain the skills, confidence, and independence needed to succeed.
Who Can Benefit
Students that commonly encounter the following challenges:
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Struggle with spelling, reading, or math despite repeated practice, with little improvement over time
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Retaining new information, whether sight words, sounds, or math facts, is a persistent struggle
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Despite being bright, creative, and clever, many students lack confidence in their academic abilities
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When faced with unfamiliar words or problems, they struggle to work through them independently
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Their work shows imagination and effort, but accuracy often lags behind understanding
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They may rely on guessing or memorized shortcuts instead of building true skill mastery
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Success Stories
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: All children and adults with dyslexia can read up to a point. But auditory processing problems prevent them from hearing all the individual sounds in a word. So they don’t 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 further no matter how smart they are and how hard they try. Such reading failure is preventable if they are taught to read differently using the Barton Reading & Spelling System. It teaches children and adults with dyslexia to read and spell at the mid-ninth grade level. That’s 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). That’s 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.
