Literacy Support at New Day Learning & Therapy Clinic (NDL) provides individualized intervention for children and young people who need additional support with reading, writing, spelling and related literacy skills.
Literacy difficulties can affect learners in different ways. Some students may experience challenges with phonological awareness, decoding, reading fluency, comprehension, spelling, written expression or processing written information. Our Literacy Specialists work to understand each learner’s individual strengths and areas of need before developing targeted support.
At NDL, literacy intervention is structured, individualized and designed to help learners develop both foundational skills and greater confidence with reading and writing.
More Than Tutoring
Literacy Support at NDL is not simply additional homework help or general English tutoring.
Our Literacy Specialists provide targeted intervention based on the learner’s current literacy profile. Support may focus on specific underlying skills that are making reading, spelling or writing difficult, while building strategies that help the learner become a more confident and independent reader and writer.
Areas We Support
Literacy intervention is individualized according to the learner. Areas of support may include:
Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
Developing awareness of the sounds within spoken language and the ability to identify, distinguish and work with individual sounds in words.
Phonics & Decoding
Building connections between letters and sounds and developing strategies for reading unfamiliar words.
Reading Fluency
Supporting increasingly accurate, confident and fluent reading.
Reading Comprehension
Developing skills for understanding, interpreting and discussing what has been read.
Spelling
Building understanding of sound patterns, spelling patterns and strategies for encoding words.
Writing & Written Expression
Supporting sentence construction, organization of ideas and the development of written communication.
Grammar & Punctuation
Developing greater understanding and application of language conventions within written work.
Visual & Auditory Patterns
Helping learners recognize and work with patterns in spoken and written language.
A Structured & Multisensory Approach
NDL uses multisensory approaches to make literacy learning more accessible and engaging.
Multisensory learning incorporates different ways of experiencing information, including visual, auditory, tactile and movement-based learning. Your existing Literacy page already identifies these four approaches as central to the program.
Rather than relying on one method of instruction, activities can be selected according to the learner’s individual needs and may involve seeing, hearing, saying, touching, moving, writing and manipulating information.
This approach can help learners make stronger connections between sounds, letters, words and meaning while providing different ways to practice and reinforce developing skills.
Learning Through Different Activities
Literacy intervention does not always need to look like traditional desk-based learning.
Depending on the learner’s age, needs and goals, sessions may incorporate:
Writing — Practicing sounds, words, sentences and written expression.
Building & Manipulating — Using hands-on materials to explore letters, sounds, spelling patterns and word structures.
Songs & Rhythm — Using auditory and rhythmic experiences to reinforce sounds, language patterns and memory.
Stories — Developing vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing and understanding of language through meaningful texts.
Games — Providing structured opportunities to practice literacy skills in engaging and motivating ways.
Technology — Using appropriate digital tools to support instruction, practice and participation.
Dyslexia & Literacy Difficulties
Literacy Support may be appropriate for learners with identified dyslexia as well as students who experience persistent difficulties with reading, spelling or writing without having a formal diagnosis.
A learner may need support in one particular area or across several areas of literacy. For this reason, intervention should begin with an understanding of the individual learner rather than assuming that every student with literacy difficulties requires the same approach.
Our aim is to identify areas where support is needed while recognizing and building upon the learner’s existing strengths.
Understanding the Learner’s Starting Point
Before developing individualized literacy support, it is important to understand the learner’s current skills.
Our Literacy Specialists may use appropriate assessment and observation to establish a baseline and identify areas of strength and difficulty. This information helps guide individualized goals, instruction and the selection of appropriate literacy activities.
Progress can then be monitored over time so that teaching strategies and goals can be adjusted as the learner develops.
Literacy Across Learning & Everyday Life
Literacy is more than learning to read and write. It supports communication, thinking, accessing information, participating in education and navigating everyday life.
For students enrolled in NDL’s full-day learning program, collaboration between Literacy Specialists and classroom educators can help connect individualized literacy goals with classroom learning.
For students attending NDL specifically for Literacy Support, strategies and recommendations may also be shared with families and other professionals where appropriate.
Our goal is to help learners develop literacy skills that are meaningful, functional and increasingly independent.
Interested in Literacy Support at NDL?
Families are welcome to contact our team to discuss their child’s reading, writing or spelling needs, ask about current availability or learn whether Literacy Support may be an appropriate next step.