Adding Velocity To Education
We use innovative precision teaching techniques to cultivate confident learners of all ages and abilities.
What is the Fluency Factor?
Fluency is the cornerstone of mastery, particularly for early learners. In any learning environment, fluency serves as a foundation for emotional satisfaction with acquired knowledge.
Conversely, skills poorly taught with diminished expectations for mastery are transient, frustrating, and ineffective. Consequently, fluency ensures that learning efforts are not wasted and that students derive value from their education.
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I highly recommend the Fluency Factory if your child is dyslexic and in need of catching up. Once we found Richard, it was as if we finally hit a home run with finding someone who could help my middle school age daughter with reading, fluency, spelling and believing in herself. She is not an easy one to get through but she trusted him and he made her feel like she can do it and made her feel that she is smart. It did not go with out some small battles but he stuck by her side and helped her achieve her goals to the end. She made HUGE strides. She jumped up pretty much two grade levels throughout the school year with tutoring 3 times a week and then 2 times a week. The school couldn’t believe how well she was doing and she will now be able to go into the main stream English and Writing class next year. I’m sure we will continue for time to time to get tutored by Richard again but as a family we couldn’t be happier that we found Richard. The Fluency Factory has been the best thing that has every happened to her and my family. You will not be disappointed in using them. Their expertise and compassion to help children succeed is beyond measurable.
Stacey Davis
Nantucket, MA
How It Works
Skill Shaping
Building strong skills to assure that they endure. Taught to a group of teachers and other professionals, this skill is critical for achieving success with clients.
Charting
Creating a daily record that will be clearly visible on a simple chart assure you that students are making progress.
Blending
Teaching continuous blending to build a foundation for frequency building.
For Schools & Organizations
Educational Consulting
We wish to demonstrate that a teaching staff within a public school can obtain outstanding results in helping their grade 3-8 students to attain grade level or better reading skills despite their age. Our major questions involve finding methods to teach and support the teaching staff in the use of these relatively unknown methods.
Because we have previously trained teachers in a variety of classrooms and schools, as well as in learning centers, we assume that with careful instruction and practice teachers will not only learn these methods but embrace them as they rapidly improve the immediate and long-term outcomes of their students.
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Curriculum Consultation
Help firmly weld disparate reading materials into a solid, highly effective curriculum.
Behavior Change
Looking at and solving behavioral issues in the classroom. Making your school effective and enjoyable for all.
Training
Helping teachers to see fragments of change and successfully track them to build complex academic skills.
For Families
Tools & Resources
The Maloney Method
A reading program that progresses from “non-reader” to the end of 8th grade, with step-by-step instruction and a well-planned series of steps to teach beginning readers.
maloneymethod.com
Haughton Learning Center
An abundance of materials that are planned to build reading skills to fluent levels. Elizabeth Haughton was a genius and discovered materials and sequences that assure success for every learner.
haughtonlearningcenter.com
Direct Instruction: Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons
This book by Zig Engelmann and his associates is both an excellent way to teach your child to read but is also an exemplar of how to design an instruction program. The book is available for about $20 and is an excellent way to teach your children.
startreading.com
Jean Tucker
Jean knows everything about teaching and understanding learners, and is the most brilliant speech and language person I have ever met. A wealth of powerful tools and ideas are available at her site.
thespelloflanguage.com
Vowel Instruction
A friendly chart that helps students to learn to both hear sounds and produce them accurately. Taught using direct instruction, this chart helps to teach students how to hear/say vowel sounds fluently and accurately.
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Vowel Instruction
Elizabeth Haughton’s powerful see/say exercise to build fluency rapidly.