My experience as a reading specialist, Special Education instructor, and classroom teacher have contributed to my skills as a tutor. Having received training and practice in a variety of techniques, I am able to choose the best approach or combination of approaches for each student.
Below are some of the methods I draw from in tutoring. My tutoring lessons are eclectic.
- Reading Recovery: a trademarked one-on-one early intervention for at-risk first graders that teaches the child to use multiple cue sources when reading.
- Orton-Gillingham: a systematic multisensory approach that focuses primarily on teaching spelling and word analysis to read.
- Lively Letters (Reading with TLC): a multisensory approach for teaching phonemic awareness and phonetic decoding. The method uses mneumonic cues to teach letter sounds.
- Brain Frames (Architects for Learning): graphic organizers that represent different ways we organize our thinking; can be used in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and notetaking.
- Reciprocal Teaching (Palincsar and Brown): an approach for teaching comprehension strategies of summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting.
At times I also add time-tested strategies that are not part of any particular approach. The overall design of the lesson plans can change as the student learns.
You can find out more about what is involved in my tutoring at these links:
