Sound & Spell: A Path to Confident Reading

PROGRAM FORMAT

Thinking Organized’s Summer Series runs on a weekly cycle throughout the summer beginning June 16, 2025, and ending August 29, 2025.

  • Each individual program runs for one week at a time, one hour per day between 10 am – 3 pm.
  • Programs are offered in four or five-day formats, either Monday – Thursday or Monday – Friday.
  • The cost of a four-day program is $600 (4 hours total).
  • The cost of a five-day program is $750 (5 hours total).
  • Each program is individualized and one-on-one.

To schedule this summer program:

  • Click the registration link and follow the steps.
  • Select a start date and time on the calendar (programs always start on a Monday).
  • Select your preferred location (Thinking Organized office or virtual) and fill out the questionnaire.
  • Submit payment via PayPal (there is an option to pay by credit card, as well).

Four-Day Series Registration

Five-Day Series Registration

Sound & Spell: A Path to Confident Reading

Help your child gain confidence in core reading skills with Thinking Organized’s Sound & Spell program!

In this one-on-one program, your children will participate in decoding and encoding programs to strengthen their reading and spelling skills. We will assess your child to determine the appropriate entry point to the program using a variety of screeners, questionnaires, and information from you!

Please Note: The program entry point is not dictated by age but by your child’s skill level.

Based on results from our screeners, your child will engage in one of the following for the length of the program. Additional weeks can be added (and are recommended!) for more robust skills development.

Foundational

    • Improve ability to identify sound/symbol relationships
    • Build awareness of syllables
    • Blend sounds together to decode unfamiliar words
    • Manipulate sounds to strengthen phonemic awareness

Beginner

      • Improve ability to recognize patterns in words
      • Decode unfamiliar words
      • Read more fluently
      • Apply spelling rules to unfamiliar words

Advanced

    • Improve ability to recognize patterns in multisyllabic words
    • Decode unfamiliar, complex words
    • Read more fluently
    • Learn and apply suffix rules
Erica MechlinskiSound & Spell: A Path to Confident Reading