access to literacy, access to confidence

This is a literacy focused tutoring service based in New York City, serving students who need support in reading. The goal of this type of tutoring is to support students in moving through the developmental stages of literacy through targeted instruction. Strategic readers are those who employ the techniques used by proficient readers to gain automatic word recognition, build fluency, and increase comprehension. Through data-driven, explicit, and systematic instruction students become more able and confident readers.

Word Recognition

instruction in high frequency word identification, phonics, and automaticity

Fluency

validated approaches to increasing rate, accuracy, and prosody

Comprehension

strategies instruction and reading for meaning

Writing

utilizing text structure, self-regulated strategies, and application of spelling and mechanics