Beat 3rd Grade Retention by Improving Reading Comprehension

Beat 3rd Grade Retention by Improving Reading Comprehension

When a parent is told that their child is at risk of being retained, their initial response is often full of emotion.  Frustration, anxiety and even guilt are felt.  We can relate to that.  As parents and Directors of 3D Learner, we strongly encourage parents to take a proactive approach to helping your child succeed.  At 3D Learner our goals are to:

  • Help parents realize that third grade retention risks are not your fault. 
  • There are a number go Good Cause Exemptions to help your child to avoid third grade retention and to be promoted
  • Help you be an Informed, Empowered and Proactive parents who:
    • Work together to help your child to be promoted
    • Understands the depth of your child’s reading comprehension and related issues
    • Becomes even more aware of your child’s strengths and challenges
    • Partners with your child’s school and the right outside professionals to help your child to make significant gains in their reading comprehension and processing skills, so they are promoted and are much more successful in 4th grade and beyond

If your child is at risk for third grade retention or grade retention in any grade, we encourage you to join us for a presentation on March 13th at 9 pm on:

How to Beat Third Grade Retention or Other Grade Retention Risks by
Improving
Reading Comprehension
Click here to register or

Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your situation or click here to schedule a
Beat Third Grade Retention by Improving Reading Comprehension Conversation

As one mom said, “How is it that after 5 minutes, you appear to understand my son’s strengths and challenges better than people who have known him for years?”  

Our advantage is we have been helping bright right brain learners succeed for 27 years.

 

5 Key Points About Third Grade Retention

1-    There are a number of Good Cause Exemptions that can be utilized to help a child to be promoted.  The Florida Department of Education has created a valuable Read to Learn Document that can help you understand your options.

2-     Most students facing third grade retention are 1, 1.5 or even 2 years below grade level in reading comprehension.  If their reading comprehension issue is not addressed, the student is likely to struggle even more in 4th grade. After 3rd Grade, students are expected to READ TO LEARN; there is no more emphasis on reading instruction in the general classroom.  That is the time when math, social studies and science require students to understand what they read.  It is also a time when the print gets smaller, the pictures disappear and students with reading comprehension really struggle.  Conversely, students who make significant reading comprehension gains by 4th grade have done much better.

3-     In a small number of cases, third grade retention is right for a child. The child does not have sufficient all-around foundational skills to succeed in 4th grade. These might include cases where the child has a late summer birthday, they may have learning and attention challenges, and they would be better off not being promoted.  This past year, we helped a few students where parents chose to homeschool their child, have a catch-up year, and make the decision about promotion later.  In Florida, the Florida Empowerment Scholarship provides parents whose child has a qualifying disability to get around $10,000 a year that can be used for tutoring.  For other students, there is a Personalized Education Program scholarship for $8000 that can be used for tutoring.

4-     Many students facing third grade retention are right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learners, who learn differently than the way most schools teach.  These kids learn best when they see and experience information.  They may also have dyslexia and/or working memory, processing speed, attention and/or visual processing issues.  

5-     By capitalizing on your child’s strengths and addressing their challenges, it is often possible to both beat third grade retention and to position your child to be far more successful in 4th grade and beyond.

Note, we have helped third graders to:

  • Beat third grade retention and score well above grade level by 4th grade
  • Improve their reading comprehension by 3 grade levels in a year

A year later his teacher commented, “He made more progress in a year than any student I have had in 27 years of teaching”

  • Improve their academic and athletic skills, boost their self-esteem and lower their anxiety

If your child is at risk for third grade retention or grade retention in any grade, we encourage you to join us for a presentation on March 13th at 9 pm where we will be discussing:

How to Beat Third Grade Retention or Other Grade Retention Risks by
Improving
Reading Comprehension
Click here to register or

Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your situation or click here to schedule a
Beat Third Grade Retention by Improving Reading Comprehension Conversation

A Pathway to Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Success for Your Right Brain Learner

A Pathway to Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Success for Your Right Brain Learner

Reading comprehension is a LOT about language and visualization!  This is especially true for the right brain learner, who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information.

So much is being discussed about how children learn to read or being taught HOW to read. These “reading wars” have been going on forever! No doubt, they will continue for a long time to come. The truth is…THERE IS NO ONE WAY TO TEACH READING!!— Yes, I said it!

Every child is different. They come to school from varying backgrounds and experiences, and with those experiences come the words or language they are comfortable using. We need to meet kids where they are at- NOT where others think they need to be.

YES, children need to understand, know, use and be able to manipulate or change around sounds that are letters (which are symbols for sounds, but most kids don’t make that connection right away.)  Not all children will learn to do that at the same time or at the same rate.

Multiple factors are needed for children to be successful to learn to read and even more to improve reading comprehension. Just like the cartoon suggests, we view our students from multiple perspectives, and rarely look at the whole child and what that child is good at or comfortable doing. 


The right brain learner often has a longer list of strengths and challenges than others do. (picture source www.priyankadutta.com)

I have read thousands of reports over the years. To most parents, these reports can be overwhelming. Lots of words and pages of what they assessed and what the child is not good at. Most psychology professionals will report on a child’s strengths but that often gets lost when so much is suggested as to what should be addressed to help the child succeed. One of the most common findings is that a child is “weak in phonemic awareness” or “decoding skills”. It seems like other findings and suggestions – which admittedly are many- are overshadowed by the push to believe that if those skills are worked on exclusively, things will get better. Parents are bombarded by the notion that they need to have their kids spend hundreds of hours practicing and remembering rules of when certain sounds are made and that just by being able to sound out words, they will be able to comprehend what those words mean.

Many parents believe, The Science of Reading premise is that the Simple Formula of Reading is:

Decoding  X  Reading Fluency = Reading Comprehension

For many of us–and the thousands of students I have worked with, this just is NOT the case!

I, for one, need to have an understanding of what a word means… a picture in my head of an understanding of the word, within a context.  In short, I need an understanding of LANGUAGE!

So many of our students can actually learn to decode. In isolation, they are able to tell me the individual sounds, and can put them together. What they struggle with is transferring or generalizing that skill when reading! 

Another one of my favorite quotes is:
“Scientists have determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain- unless it is done with play, in which case, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions!” Dr Karyn Purvis, a child development expert.

At 3D Learner, I have coined the term Flearning ® — where our goal is to have our students learn from AHA moment to AHA moment, by discovering the patterns.  For the right brain learner, it is incredibly important to leverage their visualization skills and to make learning Fun.

Language, and the use of words come from play and discovery. As parents, it is vital that we create an environment where this is possible. It is also vital that we look at the whole child and sort out what things they CAN do and encourage that. If we only focus on what a child CANNOT do, they lose so much, self-esteem suffers, and anxiety takes over! 

Understanding where the Science of Reading fits in the BIG PICTURE of what your child needs will lead to a way better outcome for success for your child. Not every child learns exactly the same way. What we do know is that the most effective way for kids to succeed in reading is for them to make connections: with their teacher, with words and with their experiences. If we listen and observe, they will show us what they need.

At 3D Learner, we provide an Integrated, Engaging, Fun and Effective way to improve reading fluency and reading comprehension.

If you would like to discuss how you can put your child on their Pathway to Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Success call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to schedule a no cost Pathway to Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Success Conversation.

How to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Leveraging the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities or the Personalized Education Program+++

How to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Leveraging the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities or the Personalized Education Program+++

(call us at 561-361-7495 and ask about our assessment special)

(Especially for right brain, kinesthetic and neurodivergent learners)

How to improve reading fluency and reading comprehension is a goal for many students who qualify for the Florida Empowerment Scholarship and the Personalized Education Program.

The term dyslexia has attracted a great deal of information.  Many parents invest in a dyslexia treatment.  Frequently this will improve a child’s reading fluency (i.e. how fluently a child reads out loud), but reading comprehension challenge persists.  At 3D Learner, we focus on how to improve reading fluency and reading comprehension with an integrated, engaging and effective program.  We also address executive function, visual processing and anxiety challenges.

3D Learner offers a focused assessment that can be done in person or online, that addresses the following questions:

  • Whether your child is a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner.  For the child who learns differently, it really helps to know that and to find a program that leverages their strengths, identifies and addresses their challenges and helps your child to improve both their reading fluency and reading comprehension.
  • Whether your child has dyslexia — and where their reading fluency is strong and where they struggle.
  • What your child’s present level of reading comprehension is
  • Whether your child has a visual processing challenge — over 74% of the students we see either skip words and/or lines when reading
  • How to improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension

To discuss how to improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your specific situation.

 

3D Learner — Offering a Strength Based Program to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension for over 26 years

Since 1997, 3D Learner has been helping students to improve their reading fluency and reading comprehension.  With what has become known as the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities and the Personalized Education Program for others, we have been able to help more students with Florida’s vastly expanded voucher program.

3D Learner specializes in helping the right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learners who often:

  • Remembers details from places visited, even from years ago
  • Learns best when they see and experience information
  • Are a lot smarter than present results would indicate
  • Often have two, three, four of the following challenges:
    • They skip words and lines when reading
    • They can focus on that which interests them, but lose focus when the work is hard or frustrating
    • They have difficulty remembering what they heard or read
    • Anxiety and frustration often occur when doing academic work

For voucher students, we are offering a two-hour assessment – tutoring – feedback session when you purchase one hour from 3D Learner through the Florida Empowerment Scholarship or the Personalized Education Program.  You can either:

  • Purchase an hour and call us at 561-361-7495 or 
  • Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your specific situation.

 

3D Learner Results for Right Brain, Kinesthetic and Neurodivergent Students

We have helped a second grader to improve her reading comprehension 3 grade levels in 7 months
and a 9th grader to improve her reding comprehension 4 grade levels in 6 months.

 

A homeschool student had been through 2 years of dyslexia treatments, but her comprehension was still at the kindergarten level, even though she was in 2nd grade.

With our help, she was able to:

  • Significantly improve her reading fluency
  • Improve her reading comprehension by 2 grade levels in 4 months and by 3 grade levels in 7 months
  • Significantly improve her attention, visual processing, and confidence
  • Read 23-chapter books on her own, after not having read one previously
  • Go from a struggling dancer to the top group, because of their improved neural timing, working memory and confidence
A 9th grader improved her reading comprehension by 4 grade levels in 6 months.

Her mother commented: “Her reading comprehension has increased four grade levels, and she has increased her rate of reading by 100 words per minute. Her ability to comprehend what she is reading has also improved and she doesn’t hate reading for the first time in her life”.

 


For voucher students, we are offering the assessment – tutoring session with a separate parent consult, if you purchase one hour from 3D Learner through the Florida Empowerment Scholarship or the Personalized Education Program.  You can either:
  • Purchase an hour and call us at 561-361-7495 or 
  • Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss how to improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension and more. 
For non-voucher students, we are offering this $250 value for $124. 

 

For the Smart Struggling Neurodivergent, Right Brain or Kinesthetic 4th, 5th, or 6th Grader, How Parents Can Make The Difference

For the Smart Struggling Neurodivergent, Right Brain or Kinesthetic 4th, 5th, or 6th Grader, How Parents Can Make The Difference

The neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner in 4th, 5th and 6th grades missed critical time in school during the pandemic.  They often struggle with reading fluency, reading comprehension, math word problems, processing issues and may struggle with anxiety and frustration.  

This blog post focuses on the significant risks and opportunities for smart kids who learn differently, the key strengths and challenges of the neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner, examples of our successes and the pivotal role parents play.  

If you would like to discuss how to help your child succeed, you can either

call us at 561-361-7495 or schedule a call at “Let’s Discuss How to Help Your Child Succeed

9 key points we wish to stress are:
  • Many smart struggling students are neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learners.  These are the kids who learn best when they see and experience information.  They are often a lot smarter than present results would indicate.  They often have a sea of strengths and challenges.  Most school based and outside interventions fail to recognize and capitalize on these strengths and the need to engage the student in the learning process.  You can access our no cost screening tool at                                              

Is My Child a Neurodivergent, Right Brain or Kinesthetic Learner?

  • There is a significant risk that things will get worse.
  • These students can do far better with an integrated, engaging and effective system that significantly improves reading fluency, reading comprehension, math skills, attention, executive function skills, and confidence, while reducing anxiety.  We have found it important to:
    • Tailor solutions to meet the student’s needs
    • Leverage their strengths and engage them in the learning process
    • Identify and addresses their challenges
    • Lower their anxiety and boost their self-esteem
    • Helps parents to secure the help the schools can provide
    • Helps the parents to be more effective coaches and advocates for their child
  • Psycho-educational testing by itself is valuable, but the benefits are much greater when it leads to a transformational program that allows your child to make significant progress.
  • For those students with dyslexia, a dyslexia treatment is often recommended.  The Science of Reading, that focuses on improving reading fluency, may be an integral part of the solution, but most of these programs are not designed to improve:
    • Vocabulary and reading comprehension
    • Math and writing skills
    • Attention, working memory and processing speed — executive function skills
    • Your parenting skills

At 3D Learner, we address dyslexia and reading fluency issues with the UFLI Program ®, a dyslexia intervention developed by the University of Florida Learning Institute.  It is an excellent option, that allows us to tailor a solution to meet your child’s specific needs.

  • For those students with ADHD, Attention Deficit Disorder, ADHD medication is often recommended.  We use the Interactive Metronome ® to improve attention.  This can either be used to complement medication or as a stand alone offering.  Our students have done very well with the Interactive Metronome, that has several unique benefits:
    • It builds neural connections in the brain, that are still there years later.
    • It works all day, so you do not have the problem of your child having difficulty paying attention when doing homework, because the medication has worn off.
    • It also improves handwriting, reading and math fluency, sports skills and impulse control.

Note, the Interactive Metronome produces very different results, depending on the provider.  We have used it for over 24 years with excellent results.

  • If your child is a neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner, it is up to you to find the solution that can help your child be all they can be.
  • 3D Learner has helped thousands of neurodivergent, right brain and kinesthetic learners to make significant gains in months.

If you would like to discuss how to help your child succeed, you can either

call us at 561-361-7495 or schedule a call at “Let’s Discuss How to Help Your Child Succeed


One mom commented, “How is it you know my child better after less than 10 minutes than people who have taught him for years?. Our response, “That is our focus, helping kids who learn differently succeed.”

Her son gained 3 years in his reading comprehension is less than a year.  His teacher said, “Tyler made more progress in a year than any child I have had in 27 years of teaching”.



Specific challenges may include some of the following

  • Reading fluency and reading comprehensionReading comprehension gaps often widen and start to impact math, social studies and science,
  • Writing.  Handwriting may be an issue, but putting their thoughts on paper is almost always an issue
  • Math.  Some are good at arithmetic, but math word problems are often a nightmare
  • Processing skills.  They often have an excellent memory for what they have seen and experienced, but have great difficulty remembering what they heard or read
  • Attention.  They can often hyper-focus on video games or something they like, but they often have great difficulty paying attention to that which is boring or frustrating
  • Visual processing.  The neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner often has good peripheral vision, that is seeing the world around them.  Their challenges often include skipping words and lines when reading, missing signs when doing math problems and with handwriting and misaligning their math work, that results in mistakes
  • Anxiety, frustration and lack of confidence.  These have always been a problem for many kids, but these issues are more common and more significant with this group in this post pandemic era.
  • In some cases, being rebellious. These students often are in fight or flight mode and sometimes the relationship with their parents are really strained.

There is a risk that academic, frustration and anxiety issues will worsen, as the work gets harder and hormones kick in. 

As parents, there are several key points to recognize:

  • School programs and accommodations can help, but they rarely help a neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner come near their potential
  • If your child learns differently, they may have the potential to do far better within months
  • If you would like to discuss how to help your child succeed, you can either

call us at 561-361-7495 or schedule a call at “Let’s Discuss How to Help Your Child Succeed

 

The Rebellious Baseball Player who was a Neurodivergent Learner

Alan seemed like a normal kid, until you realize that he had been suspended twice by his school.  His parents complained that he did not read much, he was at times confrontational and even though he liked baseball and was good at it, he often had games where he was off.

They were also upset that despite an above average IQ, he was now in classes with a lot of kids who were struggling academically and were not a good influence on Alan.  A therapist referred the parents to 3D Learner.  

The parents were aware of the emotional control issues.   They were not aware of how far behind their son was, that it could get worse and that there was a significant opportunity for growth.

Alan was not interested in school, but his ears perked up when we told him we could improve his baseball skills.  His assessment showed:

  • His reading comprehension was four years below grade level
  • He had difficulty paying attention, but the real issue was his impulsive behavior.  When he tried to match a beat and he was off, he got frustrated and at times angry.  He shared that this anger and impulsivity happened in a number of settings – including the two where he was suspended
  • He skipped words and lines when reading and read very slowly
  • He learned best when he saw and experienced information

The goals we all agreed to where to:

  • Improve his reading comprehension 3 grade levels in 6 months
  • Behave well in school, even when he was frustrated
  • Get out of remedial reading for 7th grade and to be in classes with his friends
  • Increase his reading speed from 110 to 200 words per minute
  • Increase his batting average from 263 to 350 
  • Increase the number of home runs from 1 to 5
  • Work respectfully with his parents and to have a nonverbal cue, when he felt himself losing it

The actual results were:

  • He improved his reading comprehension 4 grade levels in 4 months
  • His behavior was far better at home and in school
  • He improved his reading speed to 206 words per minute
  • He did get into regular English classes and got a B in English
  • His batting average improved from 263 to 403, which was the highest on his team
  • He hit 10 home runs that spring and it led the league

A few of the keys to his success:

  • His parents saw the potential, were committed to his success and really liked that we could improve his academic, his behavior and his baseball skills.  We are always looking for a hook to engage students.
  • We taught him how to pause when he was frustrated
  • Our hands-on program engaged him and he learned how to visualize what he read
  • We improved his attention using the Interactive Metronome ® and showed him how to stay calm, even when he made mistakes
  • We improved his visual tracking
  • He saw changes within weeks in his reading, his behavior and his baseball performance

 

The More Typical Neurodivergent, Right Brain or Kinesthetic Learner

Ben could put together Legos for hours, had an incredible visual memory, but in 5th grade, his comprehension was two years below grade level, he often lost focus and he avoided reading.  Note, if you only read at 110 words per minute, you might avoid reading too.  Ben also suffered from anxiety challenges.

His parents saw an article with this graph that showed that secondary school students with learning disabilities often fall 3 to 4.9 years below grade level and some fall even further behind.

We assessed Ben and it confirmed:

  • A significant anxiety challenge — his heart rate jumped to 142 beats per minute when we just mentioned taking an English Language Assessment
  • He did lose focus
  • His reading comprehension was two years below grade level
  • He clearly learned differently and was a neurodivergent learner and very creative.  
  • He was motivated to succeed

The goals we set were to:

  • Improve his comprehension 3 grade levels in 6 months
  • Decrease the time it took to get homework time from 2.5 to 1.5 hours
  • Have him stay calm

The results with Ben were good:

He improved his reading comprehension 3 grade levels in 4 months.

  • He decreased his homework time to 1.25 hours
  • He was much calmer

Even better, Ben wound up reading 4 long books over the next 3 months and went on to win an award as the best reader in his middle school.

 

Smart Neurodivergent Students

Alexa’s mom was really frustrated.  Alexa had a 118 IQ, well above average.  Alexa’s reading was at the 48th percentile and she was very shy and afraid to ask questions.

Mom had asked the principal what she could do, and the principal suggested there was no need to do anything, he then added, “Someone has to be average”.

Mom became a Mom on a Mission.

She heard us speak on GOLD Students — Gifted Operating with a Learning Difference.  We focus on the student’s gifts and when we do, many neurodivergent, right brain and kinesthetic learners do far better.

Our assessment confirmed that Alexa both learned differently and was on grade level for reading comprehension.  It also showed she lost focus and skipped words and lines when reading.

The goals were to:

  • Significantly improve her attention and visual processing
  • Get Alexa to ask 3 questions a day the first month, 4 a day the second month and 5 a day the third month
  • To improve her performance on the SAT from the 48th to the 85th percentile

The results were Alexa:

  • Made significant improvements in her attention and visual processing
  • Asked 4 questions a day the first month, 8 questions a day the second month and we stopped counting
  • Improved her reading comprehension from the 48th to the 95th percentile
  • Became an extrovert and was a leader in the band in high school

7 Important Things to Consider About a Neurodivergent, Right Brain or Kinesthetic Learner in this Post Pandemic Period

  • Too often the neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner’s strengths and either not identified or the solutions do not capitalize on their strengths
  • Capitalizing on their strengths is often a key to improving their attitude and lowering their anxiety
  • The learning gaps are more significant than ever, the gaps often widen and schools rarely close the gap
  • Reading fluency and reading comprehension may both often issues and you want to address 
  • Executive function challenges (i.e. attention, working memory and processing speed) need to be both identified and improved 
  • Visual processing is often an issue
  • It takes informed, empowered and proactive parents to make the difference

If you would like to discuss how to help your child succeed, you can either

call us at 561-361-7495 or schedule a call at Let’s Discuss How to Help Your Child Succeed

Note, it is often up to parents to put their neurodivergent, right brain or kinesthetic learner on their Pathway from Stress to Outrageous Success
Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension for Your Right Brain, Kinesthetic or Neurodivergent Learner

Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension for Your Right Brain, Kinesthetic or Neurodivergent Learner

At 3D Learner, we focus on Getting It Right for students who are right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learners, who often struggle with reading fluency and reading comprehension.  Note, math and anxiety are often challenges, too.

In this post pandemic period, reading fluency and reading comprehension are major issues for many students.  Math has become an even bigger problem, as reading comprehension issues are compounded by their lack of foundational skills.

As one parent commented, “The best time to intervene was a couple of years ago, the second best time is today”.  

While the risks and opportunities are greater than ever, the key point is that it is 

Up to Parents to Make The Difference

Is your child a bright right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner?  Does this describe your child:

  • Does your child remember places visited, even from years ago?
  • Does your child learn best when he or she sees and experiences information?
  • Is your child a lot smarter than present results would indicate?
  • Does your child struggling with reading fluency, reading comprehension, math and/or anxiety
  • Would you like to know how you can help your child to be far more successful, within months

 

This is the first in a 5-part series to Get It Right For Your Right Brain, Kinesthetic or Neurodivergent Learner.

This blog post will focus on the risks and opportunities facing parents and kids, and the unique role parents play in making the difference.

For the right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner,
it is up to the parents to make the difference

 

The second blog post will focus on the key Insights about these kids.  Their unique strengths, challenges and their present level of performance — with a focus on both reading fluency and reading comprehension.

 

The third blog post will focus on Setting BOLD Goals for your bright right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner.

 

The fourth blog post will focus on Getting the Right Help to Get It Right for your bright right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner.

 

The last blog post will focus on the benefits of Taking Massive Action to Get It Right for your bright right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner.

 

The 7 biggest risks the right brain, kinesthetic and neurodivergent learners face are:

  • They avoid silent reading and their reading fluency and reading comprehension gaps widen.
  • Parents invest in a dyslexia treatment, which may be needed, but they do not realize these programs often do not address reading comprehension, visual processing and related skills.
  • The right brain, kinesthetic and neurodivergent learners learn best when they see and experience information.  These students often do not make the desired progress with traditional tutoring and other interventions that do not leverage their skills.
  • These students often have visual processing, auditory processing and/or executive function issues (e.g. attention, working memory and processing speed) that are often not identified or addressed.
  • Anxiety and frustration increase each year and their self-esteem and confidence declines.
  • Reading fluency and reading comprehension issues start to impact a student’s performance in all other subjects.
  • Parents change schools – often moving their child to a charter or private school.  While these settings may help, they rarely address the reading fluency and reading comprehension issues. 

 

3D Learner has been helping students to improve their reading fluency and reading comprehension for 28 years.  We have also been working with prior voucher programs for close to 10 years.

 

Opportunities for Right brain, Kinesthetic or Neurodivergent Learners with Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Issues

  • The right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner can often increase their reading comprehension by 2 or 3 grade levels within months
  • Reading fluency gains can be significant
  • Improvements in attention, visual processing and working memory can improve academic, athletic and related skills
  • Anxiety and frustration can often be reduced, and the students can become far more confident and resilient

 

An Example Where a Student Needed far More Than a Dyslexia Treatment

Maria had been through two years of dyslexia treatments but was still struggling with reading fluency; her reading comprehension was two years below grade level, and she avoided reading.

Mom called us and in the first few minutes, we realized her daughter was a right brain learner, who learned best when she saw and experienced information and that she appeared to have a visual processing issue.

Further testing confirmed the learning difference and visual processing issue and revealed this second grade had some reading fluency issues and her reading comprehension was at the kindergartener level.

With our help, her reading fluency improved, her reading comprehension improved 2 grade levels in 4 months and 3 grade levels in 7 months, and she read 23-chapter books over this period.

 

Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Gaps Can Be Larger for Older Student

Gina had a significant reading fluency and reading comprehension issue. It turned out her reading comprehension was 5 years below grade level, and she was struggling with her homeschool curriculum.

With our help, her reading fluency improved, her reading speed doubled, she improved her reading comprehension 4 grade levels in 6 months, and she was able to do all her schoolwork.

 

The Path to Improving Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Starts with Asking the Right Questions

We often start with 5 key questions:

  1. Is reading fluency an issue for your child?
  2. What is your child’s present level of reading comprehension?
  3. Is your child a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner?  Note, many students who struggle with reading fluency and reading comprehension are a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner, who learn best when they see and experience information.
  4. Does your child have a visual processing issue?  74 percent of our students skip words and lines when reading.  People will argue that visual processing does not cause dyslexia — that is true.  However, a visual processing issue makes reading very difficult and often leads to students avoiding silent reading.   
  5. Did you realize that you can leverage the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities to help your child to significantly improve his or her reading fluency and reading comprehension in months?


We are offering a focused assessment that addresses the following.  

  • Your child’s reading fluency strengths and challenges, using the UFLI Core Assessment ®- the University of Florida’s Literacy Institute’s Assessment

  • Your child’s present level of reading comprehension

  • Whether your child appears to be a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner

  • Whether your child appears to have a visual processing issue

  • How you might can capitalize on your child’s strengths and address their challenges to significantly improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension issues in months


To take advantage of this offer,
call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your situation

Leveraging the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension +++

Leveraging the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension +++

(Especially for right brain, kinesthetic and neurodivergent learners)

The Florida Empowerment Scholarship and the Personalized Education Program now provide parents with the opportunity to significantly improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension and so much more, with voucher money.

The 3D Learner Assessment Special — purchase one hour through the Florida Empowerment Scholarship or Personalized Education program and call us at 561-361-7495 and we will provide you with a one hour tutoring – assessment effort and a 30 minute consult to answer the following questions:

  • Whether your child has dyslexia — and where their reading fluency is strong and where they struggle
  • What your child’s present level of reading comprehension is
  • Whether your child is a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner
  • Whether your child has a visual processing challenge — over 74% of the students we see either skip words and/or lines when reading
  • How with our help, you can significantly improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension
  • Or you can call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your specific situation.

 

3D Learner — Offering a Strength Based Program to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension for over 26 years

Since 1997, 3D Learner has been helping students to improve their reading fluency and reading comprehension.  We also help students to improve their attention, working memory, processing speed, visual processing and their confidence.  With what has become known as the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities and the Personalized Education Program for others, we have been able to help more students with Florida’s vastly expanded voucher program.

 

3D Learner specializes in helping the right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner who often:

  • Remembers details from places visited, even from years ago
  • Learns best when they see and experience information
  • Are a lot smarter than present results would indicate
  • Often have two, three, four of the following challenges:
    • They skip words and lines when reading
    • They can focus on that which interested them, but lose focus when the work is hard or frustrating
    • They have difficulty remembering what they heard or read
    • Anxiety and frustration often occur when doing academic work

 

3 Goals for 3D Learner Students with the Florida Empowerment Scholarship and the Personalized Education Program

Our first goals are to help parents to understand:

  • Whether your child has dyslexia — and where their reading fluency is strong and where they struggle
  • What your child’s present level of reading comprehension is
  • Whether your child is a right brain, kinesthetic or neurodivergent learner
  • Whether your child has a visual processing challenge — over 74% of the students we see either skip words and/or lines when reading
  • How you can make the difference

 

To offer an integrated, engaging and effective solution for those students we can help.

 

To help students to make significant gains in their reading fluency and reading comprehension in months.  We do this while also addressing attention, visual processing, working memory and processing speed issues.  We also strive to build self-esteem, confidence and resilience.

 

For voucher students, we are offering a one-hour assessment – tutoring session with a separate parent consult, when you purchase one hour from 3D Learner through the Florida Empowerment Scholarship or the Personalized Education Program.  You can either:

  • Purchase an hour and call us at 561-361-7495 or 
  • Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your specific situation.

 

3D Learner Results for Right Brain, Kinesthetic and Neurodivergent Students

We have helped a second grader to improve her comprehension 3 grade levels in 7 months
and a 9th grader to improve her comprehension 4 grade levels in 6 months.

 

A homeschool student had been through 2 years of dyslexia treatments, but her comprehension was still at the kindergarten level, even though she was in 2nd grade.

With our help, she was able to:

  • Significantly improve her reading fluency
  • Improve her reading comprehension by 2 grade levels in 4 months and by 3 grade levels in 7 months
  • Significantly improve her attention, visual processing, and confidence
  • Read 23-chapter books on her own, after not having read one previously
  • Go from a struggling dancer to the top group, because of their improved neural timing, working memory and confidence
A 9th grader improved her reading comprehension by 4 grade levels in 6 months.

Her mother commented: “Her reading comprehension has increased four grade levels, and she has increased her rate of reading by 100 words per minute. Her ability to comprehend what she is reading has also improved and she doesn’t hate reading for the first time in her life”.

 


For voucher students, we are offering a one-hour assessment – tutoring session with a separate parent consult, if you purchase one hour from 3D Learner through the Florida Empowerment Scholarship or the Personalized Education Program.  You can either:
  • Purchase an hour and call us at 561-361-7495 or 
  • Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your specific situation
For non-voucher students, we are offering this $250 value for $124. 

 

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