Accretive Learning

Accretive Learning is an Educational Therapy and Consultancy Centre for students aged 5 and up.

At Accretive Learning, we believe in delivering quality and evidence-based therapy sessions and we acknowledge that every child has the potential to learn and progress. We strongly value collaboration with parents, caregivers and teachers in supporting the unique and diverse learning needs of each child.

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Our team is passionate about helping individuals overcome their learning challenges. Guided by research, best practice and years of experience, we continually adapt our innovative teaching approach to ensure each child learns to the best of their ability. We believe that learning is an accretive process, and each child is worthy to learn.

Educational Therapy

Personalised and group instruction in the areas of literacy and numeracy

Workshops and Training

Workshops for parents, caregivers and teachers

School-based Consulting and Intervention

Supporting students with learning difficulties in the school

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Wondering if your child’s 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 might be something more than insufficient practice or exposure?

Come join us for 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 as we share with you about the common symptoms of the various learning difficulties and 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 you better understand your child and support their learning.

Also, hear from our educational consultants how you can 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 on his/her learning journey.

𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 conducted by a registered Educational Psychologist with consultation for just a 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 $𝟭𝟱.

Sign up here: bit.ly/FFALtalk or via link in bio

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𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗱

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼

At AL, we adopt a scientific approach to teach reading to our learners. This means:

✅ Building phonological & phonemic awareness
✅ Explicit teaching of sound-symbol relationship
✅ A structured approach to blending and fluency

In this process, we see how our learners gain learning confidence and blossom.

If you feel that your child is not meeting his or her learning potential and unsure of the support needed, 𝗗𝗠 us to have a discussion.

#accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #readingunlocked

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Sight words are common words that schools expect kids to recognise instantly because they appear so frequently in books and texts. Many of such sight words are phonetically regular, i.e. you can use phonics to read them, so your child does not need to memorise how to read them.

In Reading Unlocked, we strengthen phonemic awareness and emphasise the orthographic mapping process to explicitly work on decoding. Alongside the learning of phonics, we create opportunities for children to recognise, apply and practice these sight words to help them gain mastery in reading.

DM us to find out more about our upcoming run for module 1 and 2 in Jan 2023!

#accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #readingunlocked #preschoolers #lowerprimary

Watch this reel for a peek into the take-home mate

Watch this reel for a peek into the take-home materials over 8 weeks from Module 1 of Reading Unlocked.

We absolutely mean it when we say we value collaboration with parents and care for the progress of each child. We know parents can feel daunted by take-home work so we strive to keep learning materials fun and bite-sized, to ensure that the child gets that little bit of reinforcement before we see them again the following week.

We will be starting our second run of Module 1 and continuing Module 2 on 7 Jan. Early bird pricing ends this Thursday 15 Dec! Check out the link in our bio to register.

#accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist

While some children appear to be able to read “a

While some children appear to be able to read “automatically”, what others need is a structured approach to literacy to 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 to do just that.

A 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 prepares children to decode words in an explicit and systematic manner.

Learning to read does not have to be pure memory of new vocabulary but fun and enjoyable. Watching each child practice what they were taught and beaming with joy after mastering it must be one of the most fulfilling things in life for us at AL!

Did you know by learning 6 phonics sounds (satpin) and how to blend to read, they will be able to read at least 32 English words?

#educationaltherapy #accretivelearning #readingunlocked #structuredliteracy #preschoolers #learntoread

📖 Reading is not rocket 🚀 science but we can

📖 Reading is not rocket 🚀 science but we can definitely approach it scientifically! If your child struggles to read or dislikes reading, they may need additional support.

Learning to read goes beyond just phonics, and the National Reading Panel identified five key pillars for effective reading instruction – 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. These are the foundations of our very own 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 Programme.

If you have missed our previous intake for module 1, you will be thrilled to know that our second run will commence in January 2023.

For those with prior phonics background, you are welcome to enrol directly into Module 2.

Sign up in bio or DM us to enquire further.

*Early bird promotion 🐥 ends on 15 December 2022.*

#educationaltherapy #readingunlocked #accretivelearning #structureliteracy #preschoolers #primary1 #englishliteracy #learntoread #earlyliteracy

❔ 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄❔

❔ 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄❔

More than 80% of Chinese characters are 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰-𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀. That is to say, one part of the word provides clues to the meaning while the other part provides clues to how the character should be read. So, learning Chinese characters 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 🧠!

By teaching this to kids, it helps them to make sense of the characters they are learning 🤔. In the longer run, it becomes a 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴💡𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱🗣 when they learn new characters.
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀?

讠(related to speech) + 青 = 请 ‘request/ask’ 💬

氵(related to water) + 青 = 清 ‘clean/clear up’ 💦

日 (related to sun/light) + 青 = 晴 ‘fine/clear day’ ☀️

#accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #chineseunlocked #chineseeducationaltherapy

步子小也好，是在往前走就好。 Learni

步子小也好，是在往前走就好。

Learning Chinese can be fun and meaningful!
At AL, we teach Chinese in a sequential, structured and cumulative manner. 🪜

Last lesson, the children learnt the stroke “heng3” (horizontal stroke). This week they learnt “shu1” (vertical stroke) and learnt characters that have both strokes.

To consolidate and reinforce the learning of characters, hands-on activities ✋🏻 are used to deepen their understanding and appreciation of Chinese characters ❤️.

Fun fact: Pictographs (象形字) are one of the main categories of Chinese characters. They are formed from image shapes and convey meaning. “土” is one of them, which means soil.

#learningchineseisfun #earlychineseliteracy #accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #chineseeducationaltherapy

Confused between bo, po, mo, fo? Struggling to dis

Confused between bo, po, mo, fo? Struggling to distinguish between the tones? Having a hard time with hanyu pinyin and Chinese character recognition?

Join us this school holidays to unlock the basic fundamentals of hanyu pinyin and written Chinese through visual aids and lots of fun and games! This program comes bundled with interesting take-home exercises to reinforce home learning!

Join us for one of these 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 to find out more.

Link in bio.

#Chineseunlocked #hanyupinyin

Feeling troubled by the difficulties your child is

Feeling troubled by the difficulties your child is experiencing and dissatisfied with their progress when learning Chinese?

At AL, our group sessions are kept small, with a limit of 3 or 4 students so that every child can get the attention they need. This also means they have ample opportunities to practice what they learn - as practice makes permanent!

Our intervention sessions are carefully structured and purposely scaffolded to meet their abilities, enabling their progress to the next zone of proximal development.

Feel free to speak with us if you have any concerns about your child’s learning and find out if we can allay your concerns.

#chineseeducationaltherapy #chineseintervention #教育治疗 #accretivelearning

Eugene works with students to build exam-specific

Eugene works with students to build exam-specific skills and problem-solving strategies to excel in their examinations. By empowering them with knowledge, skills and support to do better, every student can utilise their unique strengths for improvement. This enables them to overcome greater challenges as they embark on their academic adventures.

#educationaltherapy #numeracy #problemsolving #examinationprep

👋🏻Meet the AL Team👋🏻 Since 2012, Dawn

👋🏻Meet the AL Team👋🏻

Since 2012, Dawn has been working with children and teenagers with various learning needs. She believes strongly in employing evidence-based methods and has keen interests in early literacy intervention for our young learners and in strengthening language comprehension for older ones.

Feel free to drop us a DM if you have any questions 🤗.

👋🏻Meet the AL Team👋🏻 Rui has more tha

👋🏻Meet the AL Team👋🏻

Rui has more than a decade of experience working with children and teenagers. She believes passionately in developing the whole child and focuses on fostering their thinking and self-management skills alongside literacy intervention. She has a knack to make Chinese learning simple, fun and interesting for her learners and enjoys building rapport with them.

If you have any burning questions on how to support your child in Chinese learning, do drop us a DM. 💌

#accretivelearning #educationaltherapy #chinesetherapy #华文学习困难

One of the reasons our Reading Unlocked programme

One of the reasons our Reading Unlocked programme is unique - We provide weekly take-home literacy manipulatives for guided and simple learning that’s in line with our lesson objectives!

These are not homework, but we just love the idea of providing a way for parents to be involved in their child’s literacy growth. They come with a “task card” with simple instructions on what to do. It’ll be fun, and we promise they won’t take up too much time!

It’s not just about us teaching your child. We firmly believe in partnering you parents to bring out the best learning outcomes for your child.

✏️Register for our programme (link in bio) by 10 Sep to enjoy the early sign-up rate, or DM us for more information! 🤗

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 Module 1 - Registration is now OPEN!
Register by 𝟏𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩 to enjoy our early sign up rate.

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨.

Contact us at hello@accretivelearning.com.sg or DM us if you have questions.

The remaining 3 pillars of effective reading instr

The remaining 3 pillars of effective reading instruction: fluency, vocabulary, comprehension.

Fluency is built progressively, from letters-word-phrase-sentence. As children decode, they should also derive meaning from what they’re reading.

Some simple ways to encourage vocabulary development and comprehension during a phonics lesson -

🌟 do picture to word/phrase/sentence matching. Have the child match what is read to a picture

🌟draw a picture of what is read. Eg. A cat sat on a mat. The drawing will indicate if child has understood the preposition “on”. You can extend this by asking “what would it look like if the cat was under the mat instead?”

🌟ask the child visualising or imagery-stimulating questions about what’s read. Eg. What are you 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 for that word/phrase/sentence? What are you 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 from this sentence? What does this 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 like in your mind?

Join us for our programme’s info session this Saturday at 9.30am for more! Sign-up link in bio ☺️.

#comprehension #earlyliteracy #structuredliteracy #decodingwords #readingfluency

Another key component of effective reading instruc

Another key component of effective reading instruction is this: Phonics.

We thought we’d share some of the misconceptions we commonly hear about Phonics instruction:

🤨”oh it’s just about sounds”
🤨”some children learn by recognising the whole word. They don’t need phonics knowledge”
🤨 “my kids are too old, it’s too late to teach them phonics”
🤨 “phonics is just to help them read SOME words. There are many words that are irregular and they just need to memorize them”

🌟Firstly, a good and effective structured phonics program should not just be “about sounds”. You can and SHOULD incorporate aspects of vocabulary, fluency and comprehension within a phonics lesson. In Phonics instruction, we also teach many language rules, such as spelling rules and suffixing rules. For example, when do we use a tch instead of a ch? When do we use a c instead of s? When do we drop the silent e at the back? Children learn that the English language we learn is governed by logic, and that takes away a lot of the guesswork in their learning.

🌟Secondly, regarding whole word recognition - studies have shown that in reading, the brain processes every single letter and does not look at the whole word shape. This means that teaching phonemic awareness is not only important, it’s fundamental and absolutely essential.

🌟Thirdly, our brains are always evolving and creating new pathways and older children can learn to read and spell better with phonics instruction too! Even adults!

🌟Lastly, phonics knowledge and phonemic awareness is beneficial even in learning high frequency words that may not entire follow language or sound rules. There are strategies that teach children in a manner that maintains the relevance of the alphabetic principle that they’ve learnt.

Structured phonics instruction is one that is taught in an explicit, systematic and cumulative manner. Children grow in reading confidence because they get to apply knowledge and skills learnt. If you have more questions, join us this Saturday for our info session! Click on the link in bio to sign up.

#phonicsinstructionmatters #phonicsinstruction

As identified by the National Reading Panel in the

As identified by the National Reading Panel in the US, the 5 essential components an effective reading instruction program should have are

✅Phonemic Awareness
✅Phonics
✅Fluency
✅Vocabulary
✅Comprehension

𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
One of the components we focus heavily on in the 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 reading programme is Phonemic Awareness, especially so for the first module.

Phonemic Awareness refers to a person’s ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken syllables and words. According to the review done by the National Reading Panel, explicitly teaching and practicing phonemic awareness significantly improve children’s reading ability.

Register for our info session on 3rd Sep morning and we will discuss more about this! Registration link in bio. Hope to see you there.

#phonemicawareness #readinginstruction #readingprogress #everychildcanread

We've launched our first specialised preschool rea

We've launched our first specialised preschool reading programme, 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝! A modular programme designed for students in K1 and K2, the programme focuses on developing strong phonemic awareness and decoding skills. Aligned with reading science methodologies, our modules are conducted by reading specialists with years of experience in early literacy.

Our first module is scheduled to begin this October, lasting 𝟖 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 (1 October to 19 November). To find out more about our programme, sign up for our 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 using the link in our bio, where we will showcase our curriculum and teaching approaches, as well as address any questions and concerns you may have about your child's reading ability.

If you wish to register for this module, DM us or email us at hello@accretivelearning.com.sg and we’ll be in touch!

We get this question all the time. And the boundar

We get this question all the time. And the boundaries of our work have surely altered as we progressed, in knowledge and experience. If you asked us 10 years ago, we would have said that we mainly support children with dyslexia and we use a structured teaching and literacy approach to help them cope in the areas of reading, spelling and writing.

Now, we would say, that 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭.

✅ We work with children with diverse learning needs, diagnosed or otherwise. We have students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, language impairment and more.

✅ We use a combination of educational strategies and approaches for the benefit of different types of learners.

✅ Most of our students are in mainstream education and they are struggling academically. That said, educational therapy can benefit adults.

✅ We look for the difficulties underlying their academic challenges and remediate them. For example, if a child cannot read, an underlying difficulty may be a deficit in phonological and phonemic awareness.

✅ We look for learning strengths and incorporate those to strengthen the outcome of therapy.

✅ We believe in multi-sensory and explicit instruction.

✅ Educational therapy may or may not be subject specific.

✅ We set individualized goals and work towards them.

We could definitely add more to this list! Comment or DM us if you have questions for us!

#educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #educationaltherapistsg #learningdifficulties #learningdisorders #allkidscanlearn #allkidsmatter

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