Providing Piano Lessons and Personalized Tutoring
Welcome to the Stone House Studio, where Kindergarteners through adults can come for assistance in reading, writing, study skills and piano lessons! Robin Paradis-Kent, owner of the Studio, can help you find just the right support for you or your child in any of these areas.
Want to ~
- learn how to play the piano? (any age!)
- polish up your current piano-playing ability?
Need help ~
- decoding phonics?
- understanding how letters combine to make sounds and words?
- writing a paper [for middle school/high school/college]?
- raising an SAT/ACT score?
- writing a resume?
Please see below for a complete list of all we can do to help you! The Stone House Studio can help you or your child better prepare for school and real-world communication needs. And thanks for checking into the Stone House Studio! Please continue reading to view what sort of support the Stone House Studio can offer. 262.377.5959
Reading
- decoding
- fiction
- non-fiction
- phonics
Writing
- Bibliographies/End Notes/Sources Cited pages
- MLA and APA standard notations
- brainstorming
- editing
- finding the main idea
- grammar
- narrative voice / narrative point of view
- first person
- second person
- third person (objective, subjective, epistolary, etc.)
- stream-of-consciousness
- omniscient / semi-omniscient
- organizing thoughts
- paragraphing
- paraphrasing
- planning
- preparing essays/papers/themes
- research
- rewriting/revising
- sentence structure
- source citation
- summarizing
- textual support
- usage
- vocabulary
- word choice
Study Skills ~
- organizing
- planning
- strategies
Critical and Analytical Reading/Writing/Thinking Skills ~
- accomplishing actions
- analyzing
- applicable methods or techniques for forming judgment
- applicable theoretical constructs for understanding the problems and questions at hand
- applying
- assessing conclusions
- clarifying goals
- communicating
- conceptualizing
- context skills
- deciding
- discerning hidden values
- evaluating
- evaluating evidence
- examining assumptions
- experiencing
- inferencing
- interpreting
- observing
- reasoning
- reflecting
- synthesizing
Test Anxiety/Strategies and Accommodations
There are many strategies for avoiding and overcoming test anxiety and fear of reading or writing.
While she cannot diagnose disorders, Robin can assess the level or degree of impact upon learning and can help with solutions to these very real problems.
Robin Paradis-Kent is very adept at working one-on-one or in a classroom with students who have a wide range of learning styles and levels of abilities. She strives to always stay on top of the best practices in music and English/Language Arts education.
Please contact the Stone House Studio at 262.377.5959 to discuss any questions or needs you may have. I look forward to hearing from you!