Discover the power of equine-assisted learning
Since 2012, Horse Powered Reading® has been giving hope to struggling readers by offering equine assisted services and training for students, teachers, and equine professionals around the world.
Major's Place Horse Powered Reading® program helps children increase confidence, promote self-efficacy, foster connections, learn valuable reading skills , carry new skills into the regular classroom.
Through the use of horses, chilren will engage in activities and games that will help promote phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
Major's Place is a certified Horse Powered Reading® facilitator.
How It Works:
Horse Powered Reading® integrates social-emotional learning with academics; thus allowing students see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions by creating metaphors for the skills involved in reading.
Students interact with horses from the ground, while using toys and props to identify obstacles and learn five critical reading skills - phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
* Session goals vary depending upon the needs of the individual or group.
Skills addressed
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Decoding - building phonics skills and sight word recognition
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Vocabulary enhancement
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Fluency development - reading quickly, accurately and with expression
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Overcome barriers blocking comprehension
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Practice study skills
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Comprehend textbooks
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Learn new, unfamiliar, and multi-syllable words
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Achieve higher order thinking
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Use critical and creative thinking
Horse Powered Reading® ProgramS
All Tuition & Fees are 100% Tax-Deductible
