One-on-one literacy tutoring sessions helping to close academic gaps for students struggling in the following areas…..
- Phonological Awareness
- Spelling
- Reading Accuracy
- Reading Fluency
- Reading Comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Sentence Writing Content
- Sentence Writing Mechanics
We know what effective instruction needs to look like for struggling readers and writers …..
Research is clear on the necessary teaching essentials for effective reading and spelling intervention and it is our goal to provide every student with an intervention program that addresses all of these components. Effective programs must target ALL of the 5 essential core components of literacy: Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension as well as writing content and mechanics.
We specialise in providing a personalised approach to your child’s education by:
- Creating an individualised intervention program
- Identifying and working towards target goals to help close academic gaps
- Consistently monitoring progress to plan and differentiate instruction based on your child’s needs
- Celebrating your child’s successes with them, in order to motivate and build their self confidence
- Respecting their strengths and weaknesses and encouraging them to take risks they would not normally take in the classroom
What makes this approach to intervention SMARTER?
The program we use follows the SMARTER approach to intervention and has essential components:
- Systematic -we get a baseline from your child and follow a roadmap to our end goal because the skills we are teaching are being built in a progressive format across each lesson.
- Multi-sensory – by incorporating multiple senses we are strengthening neural pathways and connections, supporting students with different learning styles, and providing extra engagement for students.
- Application of concepts for retention -often, students with learning difficulties will lack generalisation of specific concepts and strategies because they are not seeing the connection between their lessons and “real world” reading and writing. We help students see that reading and writing are reciprocal processes.
- Research Based – we implement research-based practices because the outcomes of our students depend on effective literacy instruction. Thousands of studies have been conducted to understand what this needs to look like and we don’t have time to waste using ineffective instructional strategies.
- Targeted Instruction – is necessary because a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. To be as effective as possible we need to be dynamic in our instruction. Without targeted instruction, our impacted students can fall further behind, they miss more of the curriculum offered at each grade level, and some of them never catch up.
- Explicit instruction – students need direct teaching and modelling.
- Realistic instruction – our intention is to meet each students needs and use our intuition to make tweaks as needed.
School Based Support…..
When visiting students at school we are more than happy to communicate with your child’s teacher at your request and always happy to provide suggestions on which accommodations and school-based supports are most appropriate at no charge. We always make ourselves available to discuss student progress, but it is up to the individual classroom teacher to seek our input. We are also available to discuss student progress with Educational Psychologists.
This communication will occur through:
- Phone call and emails
- Provision of up to date standardised assessment results eg. YARC and South Australian Spelling
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