7 Days A Week

5:30am - 7:30am Eastern (typically ESL international learners)

Monday - Friday

2:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern (typically American learners)

This class meets 1:1 over Zoom. 

The data is clear. Approximately 66% of American children are unable to read with proficiency by fourth-grade. By adulthood, an astounding 21% of American adults are illiterate. Reading is not just an academic skill, it is a critical life skill that may set a positive life-course trajectory. A strong link exists between uncorrected reading deficiencies and an individual's future earning potential. Reading proficiency is serious stuff! 

Literacy is freedom.

I am the graduate of a 120-hour Science of Reading Certification program, a literacy instructor, a homeschooling parent of four, and an online educator of five years.

What is the Science of Reading? SOR is a collection of research from multiple fields of study using methods that confirm and disconfirm theories on how children best learn to read. [National Center on Improving Literacy] 

An approach is aligned with SOR if it focuses on the following five ideas: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Our first class together involves completing the Informal Decoding Inventory (IDI) for your student. Your learner's data is tracked and used to place them into the appropriate reading instruction level. In subsequent classes, the student experience will include a predictable lesson format with changing word lists. I am careful to track each learner's progression through the skills. Data is collected on every learner during every lesson. 

Based on the data of Walpole and McKenna, 'How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction' and the Science of Reading, your student will progress through the following skills:

• Basic Alphabet Knowledge
• Using Letter Sounds
• Using Letter Patterns
• Blends & Digraphs
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Vowel-Consonant-E
• Vowel Teams
• Multisyllabic Words 

I am the homeschooling parent of four children, several of whom are neurodivergent. The learning differences in my home(school) include Autism, ADHD, Auditory Processing Disorder and Intellectual Disability. My classes are not "one size fits all" and are highly accommodating with emphasis on parent input and feedback. I strive to learn how each student learns best.