Lakeside Learning Center is a privately owned Educational facility located in Clermont, Florida. We offer many services to the children of Lake and Orange counties. Lakeside offers a full day school program for students and Afterschool programs as well. We provide one-on-one and small group tutoring for both students and adults. Our highly credentialed teachers offer students a challenging, creative, and interactive learning experience.
Our son was to be retained in Second Grade at his private school. We hired Scott Paul to tutor him full time for the next year since we felt it would be better than trying to Homeschool him ourselves. Scott reassured us that our son would improve during this school year. Since we knew that our son was at a beginning Second Grade reading level, we hoped that he would gain at least a year and a half within a small group setting. After the Stanford 10 testing, he gained two years and was reading at a combined level of 4.0! Using the Wilson Reading Program and the Read Naturally Program helped our son make incredible gains in his reading ability!
Michael and Denise Pertree
According to the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress report (NAEP), millions of students in middle and high schools across the nation struggle to read in school every day. The number of students scoring at or below basic level in overall reading skill is astounding:
- 71 percent of 4th grade students;
- 71 percent of 8th grade students; and
- 73 percent of 12th grade students.
And while students from elementary school through college lack basic literacy skills, this problem does not just affect our children; some 27 million adults are functionally illiterate as well.
Although it's easy to blame the educational system, overcrowded classrooms and dwindling budgets for this problem, the fact is that many people, regardless of their age, have not been able to acquire reading and writing skills because their learning needs have never been properly assessed. The majority of these people are subject to a core deficit at the most basic level of language skill: that of phonologic coding. They have never acquired what so many of us take for granted - an internalized ability to analyze the structure of words in English and apply their understanding of that structure when reading and spelling.
Whether caused by dyslexia or some other language-based learning difficulty, a late introduction to English or over-reliance on whole language programs, this deficit must be corrected by direct, multisensory, structured language teaching.
Wilson’s mission is to provide teachers
with the skills and tools they need to help
their students become fluent, independent
readers. We prepare teachers to use our
multisensory, structured language programs
and strategies to successfully teach
reading and spelling.
For more information, visit the
Wilson Language website
