Tutoring Support
Individual Reading Support
Our reading support is designed to help your student reach their full potential. Tutoring support offers a personal approach to supporting your child. Sessions last 55 minutes per child. The last 5 minutes of tutoring time is spent with parents allowing us to give a brief description of the tutoring session and thoughts for future reading support. The tutoring time with the student is spent practicing reading out loud (fluency), asking and answering questions about material we just read (comprehension), phonics help (sounds that letters make) and spelling and vocabulary work. Students will practice recalling information and writing sentences about the reading work. Punctuation practice (Capital/lowercase letters and types of sentences)is included. We also work with young students to practice letter work and handwriting skills.
Additional Tutoring Support inlcudes practice with:
Vocabulary
Vocabulary is closely tied to reading comprehension. A Reader's strong vocabulary will lead to understanding what the students are reading
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness is how each letter or syllable sounds when combined with other letters to form spoken words
Phonics
Phonics means teaching students to correlate letters in our alphabet with the correct sound of the letter or combined letters
Comprehension
Helping students to improve reading comprehension is what helps the child understand what they are reading. Struggling readers can often read well enough but when asked to explain what they just read, they cannot. Reading comprehension is a KEY strategy in helping them pass standardized reading tests in different states (In Indiana this test is called the IRead test and it is given to all 3rd grade students. This KEY component to reading success is also what will turn your AVERAGE reader into an AVID reader. Comprehension is a MUST for reading success. Students need to understand what they are reading.
Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read without having to stop to decode every word. Reading with fluency includes reading with appropriate speed, accuracy and proper expression. Reading out loud, to another person, is excellent practice for this specific skill