male tutor sitting beside a young girl, helping her with reading at a table, with other students working in the background.

Academic Tutoring

All tutoring is taught by tutors who hold Master's degrees in special education, child development or a related field. Tutors have extensive knowledge of children with differing needs, including children who have dyslexia, language based learning difficulties and attentional difficulties. Some of the skills that tutors target include:

Reading Fluency

Writing

Reading Comprehension

Decoding & Encoding

Executive Functioning Skills

Math

Test Taking & Note Taking

Focus & Organization

Motivation

Study Strategies

A female tutor working one-on-one with a young boy on a writing exercise at a table.

Structured Literacy Through Multi-Sensory Learning

Tutors use multi-sensory education, which incorporates the three learning pathways: auditory, kinesthetic, and visual. This approach is beneficial for students who learn in multiple ways. Tutors stress mastery over memorization of reading concepts. We strive to teach children sound-symbol associations and develop the child’s understanding of how phonemes and morphemes, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots are used in our language.

We cultivate successful readers by teaching the auditory relationship between letters and sounds (decoding/reading) as well as the auditory to visual relationship (encoding/writing) in a systemic curriculum. Reading and writing are practiced using sight, hearing, touch, and awareness of motion in each session so the child develops into a confident, independent reader.
In each session, the child's progress is assessed so future goals target the next appropriate concept.