Who Can Benefit?
Who can benefit?
The Language Enrichment Program has been used successfully with
- Children age nine and older by the developer in
- Private tutoring of third grade students who had reading difficulty
- After school and summer reading classes
- Saturday inner-city tutoring program for elementary children
- Middle school students
- The age group this program was originally written to address
- In my first class of 40 seventh grade students, the top 8 achieved an improvement such that they were as many years ahead of grade level in reading comprehension as they were behind (3 to 4 years) at the start of the program
- High school students to
- Enhance their understanding of language structure (in the case of gifted and talented students)
- Increase their reading comprehension to improve
- Academic success in all subjects
- Readiness to learn
- Retention and reduce dropout rate
- Prepare them to be more successful at passing the SAT or ACT test (in the case of student athletes seeking to qualify for athletic scholarships).
- College students
- English as second language (ESL) students
- Adults
- To enhance personal literacy
- To enhance family literacy (the parent who reads well is equipped to confidently help children scholastically)
- To enhance workplace literacy (employees who read well are more productive and less prone to make costly mistakes)
- To strengthen literacy skills required for college success in all subjects
- To prepare for better employment opportunities
The Language Enrichment Program has been used successfully in:
- Family settings to enhance and enrich family literacy for parents and children
- Home school settings to
- Provide solid academic foundation in language arts
- Teach students to read well
- Equip students for advanced learning about language structure
- Prepare students to be better writers
- Private school settings to
- Raise the reading achievement profile of the entire student body grades 6-12.
- Bring students newly enrolled from public school settings up to speed with the rest of the private school students
- Provide advanced instruction for gifted high school seniors in American English linguistics
- Public school junior high/middle school English classes
- In a block program to teach language skills for grammar and writing
- To dramatically raise low-achieving seventh graders reading comprehension levels
- Public school high school social studies classes
- To raise the entire high school reading profile to the most improved school in a large urban district
- Improve student reading skills to make it possible for them to read the regularly assigned social studies textbooks in world and American history more successfully
- Public school high school English classes
- To academically strengthen severely at-risk students to the point where they successfully entered university programs
- To prepare students for intense reading and writing instruction
- To prepare student athletes to successfully pass the ACT or SAT to qualify for college scholarships