Question #3: What is the difference between Camp Sharigan and the Reading Orienteering Club? Does my child need to attend both?
Camp Sharigan is a 10-hour, one-week program. The Reading Orienteering Club is a
Question #3: What is the difference between Camp Sharigan and the Reading Orienteering Club? Does my child need to attend both?
Camp Sharigan is a 10-hour, one-week program. The Reading Orienteering Club is a year-long after-school program. Both programs meet for 2-hour sessions. Both use 6 different teaching methods and 14 therapeutic interventions, and both programs stress phonemic awareness (identifying letter sounds) through vowel clustering. Vowel clustering is a method that teaches children to break words down into letter sounds or phonemes and then put those sounds back together as words to be read and pronounced correctly. Vowel clustering does not use memorization or (old style) phonics rules. Children study the letter sounds in vowel clusters—meaning that they study all of the sounds for a vowel at one time. For example, there are seven different sounds used by the letter A, and 22 different letter combinations used to make these sounds. Studying vowel sounds in a cluster helps train the brain to organize the sounds.
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