Academic Services

At Butterfly Lane we offer…

  • Intensive Literacy and Math Summer Classes.

  • 1:1 Educational Therapy Sessions.

  • 1:1 Assessment Sessions - Formal and Informal - Standardized and Skill Based

  • A Multi-Sensory Orton Gillingham approach to teaching and learning.

  • Classes that are designed to address deficits in literacy and math skills.

  • The use of researched based teaching methods, approaches, and materials.

  • The use of prescriptive teaching methods of planning for remediation.

  • A method for families to bridge and close learning gaps.

  • Support in the generalization of skills into reading, writing, and mathematical problem solving.

We help parents…

  • Understand their child as a learner using assessments and targeted intervention.

  • By validating the need for academic support.

  • Build individualized plans for their child’s unique learning needs.

  • Understand their rights and procedural safeguards.

  • Understand how the educational process works.

How does Butterfly Lane help with Academics?

We provide Intensive Group and individual Educational Therapy to build academic skills.

~ We design specialized academic instruction using a diagnostic-prescriptive approach to build academic skill that can be generalized throughout the child’s life.

~ Utilizing a Multi-Sensory, Orton Gillingham approach to teaching, our specialists prescribe research-based instructional experiences using materials strategically in order to fill gaps, remediate, and accelerate instruction to meet the unique needs of your child.

~ At Butterfly Lane we provide intensive instruction in reading and spelling, pivoting then to integrate intensive Reading and Spelling Strategies into writing composition, with generalization of skills being the ultimate goal.

~ At Butterfly Lane we feel the research is clear, provide key reading and spelling knowledge using a systematic, explicit, multi-sensory approach using research based strategies, and gaps in learning will close. Watch as your child flourishes!

Learning to Spell Supports Reading!

In her article How Spelling Supports Reading, Louisa Moats explains that “research has shown that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge—such as the relationships between letters and sounds … [S]pelling instruction can be designed to help children better understand that key knowledge, resulting in better reading (Ehri, 2000).”

Moats goes on to show that, “the real importance of spelling for reading is as follows: Spelling and reading build and rely on the same mental representation of a word. Knowing the spelling of a word makes the representation of it sturdy and accessible for fluent reading… Further, it is impossible for children to memorize more than a few dozen words unless they have developed insights into how letters and sounds correspond. Learning to spell requires instruction and gradual integration of information about print, speech sounds, and meaning—these, in turn, support memory for whole words, which is used in both spelling and sight reading. Research also bears out a strong relationship between spelling and writing: Writers who must think too hard about how to spell use up valuable cognitive resources needed for higher level aspects of composition (Singer and Bashir, 2004).”

At Butterfly Lane we take a deep dive into a student’s phonetic knowledge (both with decoding and encoding - aka reading and writing) to assess a students strengths and pinpoint areas where a child may have a gap in knowledge. We work diligently during each session to provide multi-sensory experiences that rapidly move learned concepts into long term memory more efficiently thus improving literacy skills.

Moats, L. (2015). https://louisamoats.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022_Moats_Teaching_Adolescents_Article.pdf. EdWeek.

Moats, L. (2005). https://louisamoats.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/How-Spelling-Supports-Reading.pdf. American Federation of Teachers.