Rose Writing Center Partnership

Writing for Advanced Grade-Level Students & Wilson Program Graduates

When is my child ready for more advanced writing lessons?

Once a student has achieved grade-level reading and spelling skills or has graduated from the Wilson program, we recommend putting them in more advanced lessons that cover sentence, paragraph and paper writing.

Where should I go once my child achieves grade-level reading and spelling to further their development?

We have partnered with Rose Writing Center for our student’s continued writing development.

Rose Writing Center will help Wilson program graduates become strong, capable writers. Once a student has achieved grade-level reading and spelling skills, and/or has graduated from the Wilson program, we strongly recommend moving forward with lessons with Rose Writing Center.

What are the benefits of Rose Writing Center, and what is their curriculum based in?

Rose Writing Center uses the IEW Structure and Style program, a systematic approach to writing that builds from the simple to complex. For more information about this curriculum, scroll further down this page.

About Rose Writing Center

We have chosen Rose Writing Center as our partner for more advanced writing lessons because Sydney Hoff, Executive Director of Rose Writing Center, shares the same passions for providing lessons that deliver quality instruction in a systematic way that is also enjoyable for the learner!

For more information on Rose Writing Center and Sydney Hoff, refer to the video above and visit their website to learn more about their writing services. We’re confident that you will find Rose Writing Center to provide writing services and great resources for your child that are just as good as ours.

About The IEW Curriculum

The IEW curriculum centers around learning to identify key words in text, and taking those key words to create sentences, paragraphs and papers in the student’s own words. Our tutors help the student use the key words, and the ideas they chose from the text and “talk out” what they want to say. Typically this process delivers an a-ha moment where the student realizes they can write about what they think, and that their thoughts and opinions matter.

Aspire has used it successfully to help students we tutor to gain confidence in writing and overcome the belief that they can’t write and have nothing to say. Our first goal when teaching writing, is to give the child the foundation that they can write about the thoughts they are thinking. When they come to this realization, writing becomes more achievable.

Typically, we teach children with dyslexia how to handwrite their notes and thoughts, and then how to dictate it into a Google Doc using Speech to Text technology available on their computer. Speech to text still has problems and mistakes, so editing is always challenging, but we work carefully with students on this process as well.

The biggest stumbling block for writers, is they will only choose wording they already know how to spell. Children whose handwriting is extremely laborious, and who are years behind in spelling, must first get these skills more automatic before writing tutoring can be successful. Aspire recommends our writing services to students who have graduated from an Orton-Gillingham program or can demonstrate near grade-level reading and spelling on a standardized test.