Reading tutoring

Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session…

Learn how to structure a tutoring session effectively with our guide on maximizing a 30-minute timeframe. Discover strategies for balancing engaging warm-ups, targeted instruction, and meaningful reflection to ensure each session is impactful. Whether you're new to tutoring or looking to refine your

Do you have struggling readers you just can't reach? This mega list of reading intervention activities will help you teach all students how to read!

Colors and Kindergarten: Reading Skills This is a visual for how students work their way up the Reading Ladder. Kindergarten is working within the levels 1 and 2 throughout the year. When working with your child, please focus on these skills so that they have a solid reading foundation. Success is earned and needs to be worked for.

Discover my favorite activities that are aligned with the science of reading curriculum to help your young learns master reading fast.

If you teach a struggling reader, these 12 incredible resources for struggling readers are here to encourage you through practical tips and activities.

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

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The best way for disfluent readers to become fluent is by reading! These students need to focus on ACCURATE text reading, use decodable text, repeated readings, systemic daily practice of reading words accurately, modeling of fluent reading and encouraging students to read like they are talking. Students need LOTS of opportunities to read text (at their level) using choral, cloze, echo and partner reading. These are great fluency strategies are for interventions. #fluency #fluencystrategies