Skills - Fun
- Confidence
The Fluency Factory
– Serving the Boston, Quincy, and South Shore
Areas of Massachusetts
 We are a tutoring center with a difference.
Our tutoring services are individualized to meet the specific needs
and goals of your child. Our tutors are top notch. And
we employ the clearest, most advanced teaching approach available.
The Fluency Factory
now has a seven year track record of providing top-of-the-line
instruction and support to students from kindergarten to high
school. We can help your child in many areas, including:
Stop by or call
Richard McManus at (781) 749-7400 to see what we can do for your son
or daughter!
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Summer Programs at the Fluency Factory
Summer is here! Drop
by now to discuss how we can help your child this summer. Or check out
our Summer Programs web page.
If your child is significantly behind in school, summer is the ideal
time to catch up. Summer is also a great time to simply get a jump
on the next school year.
Summer Fiction Competition
This year we are holding the first annual
Fluency Factory Summer Fiction Competition. The
competition is open to all middle and high school boys and girls in
Massachusetts. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three
finishers.
Check out our
Summer Fiction Competition web
page for more details. |
Learning is Fun at
the Fluency Factory
One of the best things about the Fluency Factory is
that kids enjoy the learning process. Our students are our
best references:
"The Fluency Factory has been an amazing help in
preparing me for all of my academic challenges. [...] They tutored me in
multiple subjects; we worked hard but always in a fun, enjoyable
atmosphere."
—Lindsey Allard, senior at Thayer Academy
(See the rest
of Lindsey's testimonial)
The Fluency Factory Has Tutored Children from
Many Local Schools
By the way, the
Fluency Factory has tutored students from these area schools:
Abigail Adams Middle School, Alden Elementary, Boston Higashi
School, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Cedar Elementary, Central Middle School, Cohasset High
School, Cohasset Middle School, Cushing, Deer Hill School, Derby
Academy, Duxbury High School, Foster Elementary School, Foxboro High
School, Governor Winslow, Hanover High School, Highland, Hingham
High School, Hingham Middle School, Holy Family, Jenkins Elementary,
Joseph Osgood School, Liberty School, Maria Weston Chapman Middle
School, Memorial Middle, Merrymount Middle, Milton Academy, Morrison
Elementary, Notre Dame Academy, Plymouth River Elementary School,
South Elementary School, South, Shore Charter School, South Shore
Christian Academy, St. Francis Xavier, St. Jerome, Thayer Academy,
The Inly School, Vinal Elementary, Wessagusset Elementary, and
Weymouth High School.
The list keeps getting longer!
Standardized
Test Preparation
We know how important standardized tests can be, and so we have
developed a rigorous program of instruction and preparation for
standardized tests at both the high school and middle school level.
Result: After receiving instruction at the Fluency Factory, our
students have been extremely successful in taking these tests.
Some feedback we've received ...
“No way I would have done so well—I was very prepared
to take the SSAT thanks to Mr. McManus and the Fluency Factory.”
—Justin
Ryder, Hingham, MA
“Justin’s performance was amazing! He was every well prepared and
scored above the 90th percentile on both math and verbal sections of
the SSAT. He will be a strong candidate for the private
schools he wants to attend.”
—Justin’s
mother, Marcy Ryder, Hingham, MA
Help for Kids
Playing Catch Up
We have also helped to revive the academic performance of
middle and high school students who have lost focus or who have been
overwhelmed trying to manage a heavy athletic and social calendar.
Many students, once they find themselves struggling, will simply
give up, falling into a spiral that can damage both their current
skills and their futures, reducing their options for success later
in life. Although these students need a great deal of skill
building and support, they can become happily successful through an
intensive program.
Foundation
Skills for All Students
Many of the students we have helped come to us struggling with math
and reading. We have also helped dyslexic and reading disabled
students to fully overcome their learning problems and become
skilled and disciplined learners who are at or above grade level.
Special Education Services
We have
successfully assisted students with developmental disabilities to
become successful in their school programs. Our students have
included individuals labeled as having autistic spectrum disorder,
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Prader-Willi
syndrome and non-verbal learning disabilities. Our rigorous
curriculum approach has helped ensure that all of these students
have done very well.
Our
Curriculum Approach
For students at every level, we employ Precision Teaching and Direct
Instruction, two powerful approaches that are extremely effective
used together. In Precision Teaching, student progress toward
mastery is carefully measured in terms of the increase in the number
of correct responses per minute. It is a quantitative
technique that removes the uncertainty from the process of
developing individualized instruction tailored to each student.
Direct Instruction provides a wide range of sophisticated learning
curricula that teach reading, comprehension, spelling and
composition.
We develop our own highly individualized materials and approaches,
and work with students to make certain that they have fully mastered
all their skills.
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Parents and
Students Love the Fluency Factory!
"The Fluency Factory has been an amazing help in
preparing me for all of my academic challenges. I spent a
summer at the Fluency Factory preparing for my difficult school year
ahead. They tutored me in multiple subjects; we worked hard but
always in a fun, enjoyable atmosphere. When I got back to
school I felt I had a jump start on my schoolwork and started to
succeed. My next challenge was SAT's. I spent many
Saturdays in the Fluency Factory. The Fluency Factory helped
me set goals and then work to achieve them. Because of the
Fluency Factory I have improved many aspects of my education but the
thing I felt best about was the confidence the tutors and Richard
gave me. I now feel like I can achieve any goal I set.
Everything is a positive and everyone is always smiling. The
energy and positive reinforcement makes everyone want to succeed,
and everyone at the Fluency Factory loves to see you succeed.
For this I am unbelievably thankful to the Fluency Factory for all
that they have done to help me."
—Lindsey Allard, senior at Thayer
Academy
"I have recommended to sixteen families that they
use the services of the Fluency Factory—and
they have all been equally pleased with their children's progress.
The Fluency Factory offers a very sequential, carefully mapped out
program where children can be successful every time they make the
effort to learn."
—Sandra Strazzulla, Cohasset, MA
Click here for more
testimonials |
Beal Street Academy,
affiliated with the Fluency Factory, is a small private school
serving students in grades 6 through 12. Using the same
teaching approaches as the Fluency Factory, its goal is to provide a
fresh start for children who have struggled to achieve their full
potential.
The Academy welcomes students who have fallen behind due to illness,
disability, or problems with a one-size-fits-all instruction model.
In many cases the school can help a student make up lost ground and
quickly return to his or her referring school, newly equipped with
self confidence and the skills to succeed.
On September 4, 2009,
Beal Street Academy received provisional approval from the
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and
can now accept referrals from cities and towns.
Call The Fluency Factory
at
(781) 749-7400
or
Toll Free at (866)
FLUENT1
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