CARRAWAY CENTER FOR TEACHING & LEARNING
Carraway Center
for Teaching & Learning
Reading Workshops
Individual Sessions
Times: Chosen by the Parent
Location: Carraway Center in Cahaba Heights
Length & Frequency: 2 -3 times per week is recommended over the summer months to make robust reading gains. Each session is 1 hour in length. Sessions are recommended to continue throughout the school year if needed.
Assessment: Pre-testing and Post-testing
Reading Intervention & Support
We provide targeted reading intervention and support through the use of a multi-sensory, systematic, structured literacy approach based on Orton Gillingham Methods.
All of our instruction is based on The Science of Reading and Neurocognitive Research on how the developing brain learns to read.
Students have fun as they engage in direct learning, play literacy-based games, and develop critical decoding (sounding out words) and encoding (spelling words) skills. Students work on fluency and comprehension exercises and track their progress.
Some of the programs we use include:
- Orton Gillingham
- Wilson Reading Program
- Spire
- Great Leaps Fluency
- Heggerty
- And Many More!
Reading Comprehension Workshops
Dates:
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June 15 -19, 2026
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July 20 -24, 2026
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July 27 -31, 2026
Times:
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Rising 5th & 6th (8:00 -10:00)
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Rising 7th & 8th (10:30 - 12:30)
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Rising 9th - 12th (2:00 - 4:00)
Cost: $350
Location: Carraway Center
*Students can schedule individual sessions to work on building reading comprehension skills over the summer and throughout the school year.
Summer Reading Discussion Groups
Put together a small group of friends who are reading the same novels for their summer reading assignments and we provide a teacher-led discussion classes on the novel. If you don't have a small group, we can provide this instruction one on one.
These sessions are designed to focus on building reading comprehension skills and on learning how to pick out what is important while reading.
Each session will focus on assigned chapters and include discussion, review, and summaries of the reading material.
We will also help students navigate their summer reading assignments (answering questions, writing summaries, annotating, projects, or writing essays). We do not do any of the work for the students, but provide the space, time, and direction to help them complete these assignments.