Cursive writing is taught beginning in kindergarten,increasing writing fluency and quality right from the start.

The Key Learning Center

What is the Key Learning Center?

The Key Learning Center (KLC) is the Community Outreach Component of The Key School at Carolina Day School . The Key School serves children with language-based learning differences and attention-deficit disorder in grades one through eight. KLC's mission is to provide knowledge and training in the scientifically research-based multisensory approach to teaching reading, spelling, and writing in order to improve literacy, and provide remediation and prevention of life-long reading disorders.

What is Multisensory Structured Language Education (MSLE)?

MSLE refers to an approach to teaching the language skills of reading and writing. It involves several key components. MSLE is considered to be essential for effectively teaching students with language-based learning differences. Its components are research-based. Further MSLE meets the same criterion as the National Reading Panel's recommendations for effective reading programs for all children.

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Who can benefit from The Key Learning Center's
professional development programs?

  • Elementary and middle grades teachers
  • Early Interventionists – Preschool and Kindergarten Programs
  • Reading Specialists and Literacy Coaches
  • Special Education teachers of all grades
  • Tutors
  • Home-school educators

The Key Learning Center Presents...

Intensive Intervention in Reading

Summer 2008

Teaching Reading through the Multisensory Structured Language Education
Approach

Levels I & II

These courses will teach you how to systematically teach children to read using research-based instruction. The five components of effective reading instruction (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension) are addressed. It will also give you information on how to assess struggling readers and design a specific intervention program.

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Click for Level II description.

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The Key Learning Center announces...

2007-2008 Saturday Seminar Series

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The Saturday Seminar Series is an excellent way to gain foundational skills and determine if the entire Multisensory Structured Language Education Course would be of value to your teachers, your school, or your classroom.

 

 

Email: cwyatt@cdschool.org with any questions.

Seminar 4:

April 5, 2008 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Reducing Test Interpretation Anxiety : Test Interpretation Made Clear, An Overview of Test Measurements for Children and Adolescents with Language-Based Learning Differences
Presenter: Deirdre Christy , Ph.D., HSP-P, NCSP

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Our Mission:

The Key Learning Center serves as a premier community resource and training and outreach center for educators, professionals, parents, and students in the Western North Carolina region regarding language-based learning differences/dyslexia.

The Key Learning Center
Training Course
is accredited at the
Teaching and
Instructor of Teaching levels
by the
International Multisensory Structured Language
Education Council (IMSLEC).

 

SAT Tutoring




Excellent resoures for parents:


Schwab Learning - A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Difficulties

The International Dyslexia Association

The Key School at Carolina Day

The Tutoring Connection

Check out these Key School Produced
Power Point Presentations: