YEARS 3–12
English and literacy tutoring
Reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary and analytical writing, with a fluency screen for every learner in every subject.
What it covers
- Reading fluency, screened for every learner regardless of subject
- Comprehension: literal, inferential and evaluative
- Vocabulary taught explicitly, including subject vocabulary
- Sentence and paragraph construction
- Analytical writing, text response and persuasive writing
- Planning and structuring under time pressure
Who it is for
Learners who read slowly, who can decode but not comprehend, or who have ideas but cannot get them onto the page in a structure a marker can follow.
How it runs
Weekly, online, same tutor, same group. Writing is taught through modelled and faded examples, never by editing your learner's assessment.
Curriculum coverage
A selection of the learning areas explored in this program. Your diagnostic determines the starting point and learning sequence.
- Navigate and read texts for specific purposes
- Identify and explain how authors influence the reader
- Create literary texts that adapt structures and features
- Use comprehension strategies to analyse ideas and information
- Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style and tone
- Plan, create, edit and publish sustained analytical texts
Price
From $69 per session, GST inclusive. No lock-in contract, two weeks' notice, pause any time. Second subject 20% off and siblings 15% off on group memberships.
Questions
Will you edit my child's essay?
No. We teach essay architecture and textual analysis on a different text, and your learner then writes theirs alone. Editing assessable work is one of our Red Lines.
My child hates reading. Can you help?
Often the aversion is fluency. Reading is unpleasant when it is effortful. We screen for that first rather than assuming it is attitude.
Do you cover VCE English?
Yes, through the Senior Mastery programme, taught against the VCAA study design with assessment rehearsal on tasks we write.
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