MINDCRAFT TUTORING

(Formerly known as eXL Learning)

We offer Orton-Gillingham Tutoring for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia support and for struggling readers and writers, general tutoring (math, reading and science), college entrance test prep, and Educational Learning Evaluations.

We help students to accelerate growth to or beyond grade level & strengthen academic understandings for future success.

  • Reading

    To support the development of K-12 reading skills we:

    • Provide explicit vocabulary instruction

    • Provide direct and explicit comprehension strategy instruction

    • Provide opportunities for an extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation

    • Increase student motivation and engagement in literacy learning by incorporating their interests

    • Provide for intensive and individualized interventions for struggling readers or those who wish to advance

    • Provide the new technologies available to our “digital natives” to practice skills learned

    • Embed strategies that prepare our students for post-secondary and workforce readiness in the 21st Century

  • Tutoring for Dyslexia

    One in five students (about 15-20% of the population), has a language-based learning disability. Dyslexia is the most common of language-based learning disabilities.

    Although dyslexia is a lifelong issue, individuals with dyslexia respond successfully to timely and appropriate intervention or tutoring. This is why it is crucial to act at an early age. Waiting with a false hope that it will disappear as the child gets older will only allow for the child to get further and further behind in their academics, regardless of their intellectual abilities. Early intervention also results in a more confident and successful individual later in life.

    Learn more about the Orton-Gillingham Approach below.

  • Math

    Is your child struggling with math? Or do you have a math-lover who needs more challenge than he or she is getting in school? We can help. Let us help you grow your child’s motivation for and love of math.

    Our tutors are highly qualified and passionate math educators.

    Our Math tutoring promises to:

    • Provide intensive, intentional instruction through a hands-on approach.

    • Emphasize problem-solving and strategy development to aid students to move from the concrete to the abstract.

    • Support student discussion by comparing ideas, justifying methods, and articulating thinking leading to increased motivation to learn mathematics.

    • Improve their understandings of Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability.

    • Align our tutoring with identified school mathematics for your child.

The Orton Gillingham Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction:

Orton-Gillingham (OG) is the research-based approach recommended by the International Dyslexia Association. OG is a multisensory structured language program. It has a sequential format moving from concrete to abstract and from simple to complex. There is sufficient repetition to achieve automation and considerable scaffolding techniques to support students at any level.

The OG approach also helps students make spelling easy for students as it focuses on why words are spelled the way they are. The English language contains 26 letters. When combined, they create 44 speech sounds and there are more than 250 ways to spell those sounds! OG condenses the spelling of these sounds into phonograms and teaches students to apply rules and generalizations that help make spelling a much easier task.

The recommended frequency is at least two hours (two 1 hour sessions) per week of tutoring. Orton-Gillingham is also a successful method for children without dyslexia (but who struggle to advance to the expected reading level for their age) as well. To learn more about our dyslexia tutoring services, please contact us (see below).

Contact us

for more information

2501 Dallas St #228,

Aurora, CO 80010

303-341-4065

steam@mindcraftmakerspace.com