Nourishing Readers
from the Ground Up
Melodee Lee is an elementary literacy specialist with 20 years of experience teaching children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The Reading Tree has grown from Melodee’s desire to foster a love of reading, a chance for growing, and a long-lasting pride in learning.
It is easy to keep a child motivated and reading during the school year. It is a bit more difficult over the summer, though. Often, children come back to school suffering from summer regression effecting their reading and writing.
Recognizing the need for an engaging, interesting summer reading program, Melodee founded The Reading Tree as a means to keep children reading, learning and excited about their education all year round.
Reading Tree will take place daily during the week of June 10th at Lone Tree Elementary, with each session attending two hours a day.
Planting the Seed is our kindergarten readiness program, targeted toward building early reading skills and helping ease beginning of the year anxiety for the youngest of learners. This program runs from 12:30p-2:30p.
Branching Out is our first, second, and third grade readiness program, focused on extending phonics, phonemic awareness and comprehension skills learned in school. We spend time both decoding words as well as previewing various comprehension strategies used in more advanced reading. This session runs from either 9:00a-10:30, or from 10:30a-12:00p.
We also offer an opportunity to extend your child’s reading and art skills through our third program called Books and Brushes. This summer, Reading Tree is partnering with Aspiring Artists, hosted by LTE’s art teacher, Lorri Hodges. Books and Brushes gives your child a chance to to participate in a Reading Tree session for an hour and a half and an art exploration session with Aspiring Artists for an hour and a half. This new program runs from 9:00a-12:00p. **Please note: This session is only offered for students entering first through third grade.
The Reading Tree is looking forward to nourishing your reader from the ground up this summer!
“As a veteran teacher, I am committed to early reading readiness and fostering beginning literacy skills. There are few things more satisfying as an educator than seeing the spark of learning in a child’s eyes.
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“Both of my kids were fortunate enough to have Mrs. Lee as their teacher for the Reading Tree and for Kindergarten. Mrs. Lee is kind, compassionate, energetic and has a wonderful way with young children. My children adore her and have learned so much from her; they couldn’t wait to go back the next day for more fun and learning. I highly recommend this program and you couldn’t ask for a better teacher for your emergent reader.”
“Melodee is an extremely talented teacher who instills confidence and a love of learning in her students. My girls were lucky enough to be involved with Reading Tree camp and from day one, Melodee made them feel comfortable. By the end of the session, my girls were excited about reading and could not wait to start school. I would highly recommend the Reading Tree summer program for anyone with young children.”
“The Reading Tree program was instrumental in helping my very shy, apprehensive kindergartener begin to blossom into a self confident reader! The teachers that run the program are priceless! They made all of the children feel very warm, welcome....and smart! Thank you Mrs. Lee for all that you do. Keep up the great work!”
“I have two children who went to two summers each of Reading Tree camp. They went the summer before they started kindergarten and the summer after! My daughter even got to go when Melodee added an extra session over a break! It is a great way for an anxious child to ease into kindergarten and a great practice of skills to stay fresh during the summer break! Melodee is a warm, loving and inspirational teacher and you could not ask for a better place to send your child to learn and grow!”
