Ms. Susan S.
specializes in Experienced Reading Specialist with M.A. in Educ./Reading Disabilities · female
"I am a state certified Reading Specialist and elementary classroom teacher with a Master's degree and 20 years' experience. My private and public school experience includes working as a classroom teacher (K-5), reading and learning specialist, and working as a tutor for beginning readers through adults. I am successful in helping students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities.
To begin with, I more...
"I am a state certified Reading Specialist and elementary classroom teacher with a Master's degree and 20 years' experience. My private and public school experience includes working as a classroom teacher (K-5), reading and learning specialist, and working as a tutor for beginning readers through adults. I am successful in helping students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities.
To begin with, I conduct informal inventories and assessments to determine students' learning style as well as their strengths and challenges. In addition, I talk with students to find out their interests as well as their concerns. I supplement my assessments with learning about their school experience...reading formal reports, IEPs (if relevant), and other material provided by parents.
In beginning reading, students learn the mechanics of reading: phonics, blending skills, sight words, sentence and paragraph reading, fluency, and basic comprehension. I use Orton-Gillingham techniques to teach structured, sequential phonics, starting with consonants (including consonant blends and digraphs) and progressing to vowel teams and diphthongs. I teach phonemic awareness and blending skills for the young learner.
From 3rd grade on, students move from learning to read to reading to learn. They are now reading multisyllabic words that are often content based. If a student has not learned syllabication rules, they will struggle in reading grade level material. In addition, reading becomes more content based after second grade and critical thinking, as well as inferential comprehension, is necessary to the success of a student in any subject matter, including math. I use numerous techniques to help children comprehend fiction and non-fiction material. I am a firm believer that these skills must be taught and practiced for a student to apply them in school.
In addition, I have taught and tutored math in the elementary grades. My experience includes Everyday Math and Saxon math for students with learning differences. I util" less...
Details
fee: | $70 (for 60 min) |
travel distance: | 8 miles |
meeting type: | either in-person or online |
Contact
website: | on file |
Education and Qualifications
certified: | |
University of Florida, Education
George Washington University, Masters
Case Western Reserve University, MBA
Atlanta, GA 30341
Subjects Tutored |
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Vocabulary - Grammar - Reading - Writing - English - Proofreading - Spelling - Elementary (K-6th) - Phonics - Dyslexia |