Your child can learn to read

Have you ever wondered why your child struggles to read, despite being bright? Your child is not alone. Only 33% of 4th graders and 31% of 8th graders tested as proficient in reading on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Reading instruction often fails to build a very important skill that students need to become fluent readers. Many students with reading problems have difficulty with phonemic awareness at the core of their decoding challenges. Their academic skills can only truly improve if phonemic awareness is explicitly practiced while reading print. This means learning to:

* Perceive sounds that make up words (called phonemes)

* Make changes with sounds within words

* Blend sounds together to form words

These phonemic awareness abilities are strong in skilled readers. It's very important for students to learn to pull apart and blend individual sounds using letters within real words. Your child can become a skilled reader by building foundational skills and reading decodable texts which include letter-sound patterns already learned. Students receive lots of practice and teacher feedback.

I specialize in reading programs that:

* Use evidence-based direct instruction

* Have simplified designs that focus on key skills

* Teach decoding for words with more than one syllable

* Give kids lots of practice and feedback

* Use engaging reading materials that reinforce learned letter-sound patterns

* Focus on handwriting, spelling and writing

* Teach vocabulary and morphology (the study of meaningful word parts)

* Teach grammar and syntax (which aids in reading comprehension and writing)

* Make learning fun

* Help kids learn to read as quickly as possible!

Using a simplified and focused design with engaging materials builds reading fluency efficiently and effectively.

Tara B: Dr. Klein has helped out 10 year old beyond what we imagined. We were struggling with even doing site words and within only a few months he is reading so beautifully. She has also started helping him with his times tables and he is catching on nicely. Her strategies and techniques are working when nothing else seemed to be. We are thrilled, and he also feels more confident which shows. Thank you!

Julie M: Thank you for all of your help helping my 8-year-old grow in her reading! You have made such a huge difference in how she reads and learns. I just can't thank you enough for how you have encouraged both of us during a time when we didn't know what else to do to help her in school. Your way of teaching gave her confidence to want to read! It amazes me how much she improved in such a short time. You are an amazing teacher and we are so thankful that we got lucky enough to find you! Thank you Dr. Klein!

Heather F: Dr. Beth has been an amazing resource to our family. She’s been invaluable in helping our daughter, and now our son, on their reading journeys. We are so thankful we found her.

Laura S: My daughter is now in 2nd grade and struggled in reading since Kindergarten. Finding Ms. Beth has been a life changer, she is very patient and keeps my daughter engaged 100% of the time. My daughters reading skills have improved drastically since starting with Ms. Beth.

Laurel L: We absolutely recommend Dr. Klein. She is fantastic. Her work with our son – during the pandemic nonetheless – set him on a path for academic success. She was available to answer questions, easily explained her approach, and diligently engaged with our 9 year old. Over the period of about one year, he has grown in confidence, ability, and a desire to continue learning. She was great and we absolutely recommend her program and approach to intervention. His starting place was difficult to discern and evaluate. It was unclear where the underlying disconnect was in his delay in reading. Through patient, consistent evaluation she was able to find the key issues that were making reading difficult. We never would have been able to figure out what was going on without her expertise. Now, he reads all the time and is fascinated with books, maps, and learning. As a homeschooling mom, I could not be more thankful to have such a supportive, effective and kind professional on our team. I have recommended her to others with struggling students and will continue to do so. Thank you so much, Dr. Klein!

Hilda J: A year ago my 14 year old daughter who struggled with learning began to have sessions with Dr. Beth. She has been recommended by a friend who knew someone whose child had tremendously improved in reading after working with Dr. Beth. My daughter loves to meet with her and we have seen great improvement and even increased desire to learn. Dr. Beth is passionate in what she does and gets to the root of what's needed to unlock the learning process. It's obvious that she is interested in seeing my daughter not just learn, but excel. She has gone over and beyond my expectation. I highly recommend her.

Despite IEPs, 504 Plans, and past psychoeducational evaluations, many children continue to struggle reading. Students who have not mastered decoding cannot comprehend what they read. The goal is to lift the words off the page automatically. It is critical to build the foundation first, and reinforce newly learned letter-sound patterns by reading decodable text. Reading fluency is improved by reading phrases, re-reading text, attending to punctuation, and practicing voice inflection. Some kids have intact decoding skills, but struggle with language comprehension and/or executive functioning skills. The underlying problem needs to be directly addressed through effective and targeted intervention.

Learning to read with an effective reading plan allows kids to become more capable and successful, which enhances self-efficacy and self-esteem. Imagine how much your child can achieve when reading skills are more in line with true potential!

In addition to tutoring, I offer Parent Coaching. For kids and teens with mild reading difficulties, Parent Coaching can help students make needed academic gains. I relay powerful instructional strategies that guide parents to help their kids become better readers. You can sign up for just one session, or as many sessions you'd like to build your skill as an instructional guide. I coach parents, grandparents, other relatives, and general tutors. This can be a more cost-effective way to really help a student to make quicker gains in reading, which improves performance across all academic subjects. The strategies I teach are based on the science of reading.

Many children do not become fluent readers. The type of curriculum matters, and how the material is presented matters. Some kids will pick up reading skills no matter how they're taught, as their brains rewire more easily for reading, but many, many kids are left behind.

Building the foundation, paired with practice and meaningful feedback, makes all the

difference in learning to read. These collectively build fluency. The goal is to lift the words

off the page automatically.

Many curricula use approaches that do not work for all kids. For example, a student with working memory problems may be overwhelmed by complex verbal instructions. Kids learn to read much more quickly through lessons which leverage a natural oral language ability. The focus on sound-based language patterns leads to a more streamlined learning process. When kids grasp the concept that letter strings represent sounds, the process of decoding develops more easily. This builds the reading circuitry in the brain much more effectively and efficiently, and as a result kids stay motivated and engaged, and develop their skills at a faster rate.

Using simplified, multisensory, evidence-based teaching methods results in the quickest and greatest gains in reading. This allows kids to become more capable and successful in all academic areas, which enhances self-efficacy and self-esteem. Imagine how much your child can achieve when reading skills are more in line with true potential.

READING/WRITING: Print awareness, phonemic awareness and proficiency, word decoding and blending, reading fluency, reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, syntax, and written expression

MATH: Symbolic processing, word problems

Reading impacts every single subject in school.

A child with attention struggles as well as reading difficulty benefits most from reading intervention that lightens the cognitive load. Many reading programs require rote memorization which increases working memory demands. Kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often have a lower working memory. They learn to read much more quickly and effectively when providing a structure that connects what they already know (phonemes or sounds) to new information (letters). This is done by giving them much opportunity for practice with interactive activities, along with immediate teacher feedback.

I often find that students haven't had sufficient direct, systematic, explicit instruction in reading decoding, spelling and development of writing skills. Accommodations and technology help kids compensate, but don't directly address the underlying issue. Important questions are:

*What has been your child's learning trajectory for key underlying skills?

*What are persistent areas of difficulty?

*Does your child require more intensive remediation, or a different type of instruction?

I use state-of-the-art platforms, apps and tools to complement my reading tutoring services.

I have 20 years of experience in psychoeducational (diagnostic) evaluation of reading and writing disorders including dyslexia, and training in multisensory instructional approaches. My training includes Structured Linguistic Literacy and Orton-Gillingham programs. My current educational practice is focused on instruction and intervention for reading, spelling and writing struggles.

I hold a Certification as a Phono-Graphix Reading Therapist. Research on the Phono-Graphix program has shown very accelerated gains in reading. As published in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia, 98% of children (ages 6 - 16) reached grade-level reading in only 12 hours of intervention. 44% of these children were diagnosed as learning disabled before the intervention. The average gain in word reading ability was two full years growth.

I personally conduct all learning sessions. Additionally, I support parents in providing their child with the best possible learning plan, based on student needs. I want to help make a true difference in each child's learning trajectory.

I curate high quality educational content by top-notch thinkers, educators, researchers, and psychologists, and my clients benefit from this knowledge.

Feel free to call me at 954 423 4231 to ask any questions you have about reading instruction and intervention. I look forward to hearing from you.