Summer Scholars Program

Concerned that your child will lose ground over the summer vacation or worried that your child has fallen behind in the essential academic subjects? PCEA’s Summer Scholars Program provides students with personal instruction to enhance their reading and writing skills. The program will allow your child to return to school in September more confidently, with enriched, stronger academic skills.

Reading instruction is based on the Orton Gillingham Multisensory Structured Literacy program and is designed to build critical skills for decoding vocabulary and comprehension. The research-based program Visualizing and Verbalizing will be used to increase reading comprehension. Writing instruction will use a variety of research-based approaches through which students will work on essay writing skills, including paragraph development and basic research. 

Instruction will be provided by experienced, certified teachers trained in each approach used. Students will work in groups of no more than three, allowing for personalized, meaningful attention to their needs. 

Essay Writing - Ages 8-12

Session 1: Brainstorming | Session 2: Prewriting | Session 3: Drafting Part 1 | Session 4: Drafting Part 2 | Session 5: Revision | Session 6: Editing 

Framing Your Thoughts - Ages 8-12

Session 1: Bare Bones Sentences | Session 2: Predicate Expanders Part 1 | Session 3: Predicate Expanders Part 2 | Session 4: Punctuation | Session 5: Short Story

Reading Comprehension - Ages 7-11

Session 1: Somebody Wanted But So | Session 2: What is the Problem? | Session 3: Making Connections | Session 4: Theme/Lessons | Session 5: Verbalizing and Visualizing

The Summer Scholars Program will be offered: 

• July 8 - 12
• July 15 - 19
• July 22 - 26
• July 29 - August 2

Each session will run from 9:00 am to 11 am, five days a week. Pricing is $350 per week.