Tutoring - Victoria BC

Is your child struggling with school?

As a parent, you know your child and may be the first to notice that he/she needs some extra help to succeed in school. Perhaps your child has had repeated ear infections or speech delays and is need of direct, systematic instruction to catch up at school.

Reading

Your child will benefit from tutoring, if he/she has difficulty:

concentrating, listening or remembering
rhyming words
breaking words apart into sounds
blending sounds together to make words
remembering the names and sounds of letters
playing words games
recognizing words with the same beginning sounds
pronouncing new words

Signs of a successful reader

By the middle of first grade many children:

know the sounds associated with all of the letters
self-correct if a sentence he/she is reading doesn't make sense
remember many sight words
try to sound out new words

Good readers are phonemically aware, understand the alphabetic principle, apply these skills in a rapid and fluent manner, possess strong vocabularies, know how to create well formed sentences, and are able to relate reading to their own experiences. Difficulties in any of these areas can impede reading development. Children are instructed with a combination of phonics, sight vocabulary and context.

Signs of difficulty with mathematics

Children who find it hard to make repeat patterns with blocks, count out specific numbers of objects, sequence objects, classify objects or have a lack of math vocabulary, may need more hands on math instruction before tackling more abstract math concepts.

Specific activities targeting these areas can increase your child's mathematical understanding.

If your child has problems in math, he/she may need a short time of well organized intervention two times a week to catch up. As a teacher with over twenty years of experience working with children, I offer a wealth of reading & math strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help each child learn and increase confidence.

Whether your child needs more hands on experiences to understand math concepts, help organizing information in order to learn it or intervention to experience success at reading, I can help.

Victoria BC tutoring

If you live in the Victoria area and would like tutoring for your child, contact me through the form below.

Where: Your home or at the local library
When: One hour sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks
Fees: Six week block - $360.00 (Includes one make up session at the end of the six week period if child cannot attend due to illness)

Schedule doesn't work out?

Other arrangements can be made if the above does not work for you. Please comment in the form below.

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