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Let’s Read and Write Together: Private Tutoring in Language Arts

Completed by 154 learners
Ages 8-13
Live 1-on-1 Lessons
In this on-going course students will get 1:1 individualized instruction to improve their confidence and ability in reading, writing, and storytelling.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(450 reviews)
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Meets on demand
25 min

What's included

Meets on Demand
schedule meetings as needed
25 mins
per session
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Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 7
I have a master’s degree in English and creative writing and have taught English for six years, but most of what I’ve learned about teaching has come from homeschooling my eight children. Learning takes place when the heart is engaged. This class is open ended and aimed to fit the individual student. Books and writing topics will be chosen according to the student’s interest and suggestion.
We will build vocabulary based around the student’s area of interest.
We will build sentences, then paragraphs, then short stories.
We will write letters to people that matter to the student.
We will read books and discuss who, why, when, where, and what.
We will tell stories to each other to practice organizing our thoughts and gain confidence in speaking.
We will have fun as our skills improve.

Critical reading/writing project format: 
--Introduction, project/book decision.
--Introduction to book and author. Overview of genre, point of view, and theme.
--Comprehension check and critical analysis of the book's opening chapters. Making predictions.
--Comprehension check and critical analysis of the week's reading. Learning how to think about a text. Review and edit writing responses to reading.
--Comprehension check and critical analysis of the week's reading. Learning how to think about a text. ---
--Review and edit writing responses to reading.
--Comprehension check and critical analysis of the week's reading. Introductory paragraphs. The importance of focusing a thesis.
--Comprehension check and critical analysis of the week's reading. Body paragraphs. Finding and following the logic!
--The pleasure of expression through words. Brining your writing to life by combining your personality with metaphors, similes phrasing, and figures of speech.
--The difficult fact of the first draft. Editing for a second draft. Creating a gem.
--The presentation of the essay. Satisfaction through expression.

Learning Goals

Students will gain confidence in reading, writing, and expressing themselves.

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Meet the teacher

Joined June, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Receiving a master’s degree in English from BYU with an emphasis in creative writing was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with all things creative: novels, plays, movies, painting, music, dance, origami, cosplay, juggling, computer games, DnD . . . the list goes on. 

On the STEM side of life I spent eight years in the United States Air Force as a radar technician. Working with the highly mobile radar of a forward air control post I traveled the world in C-130s, was buzzed by A-10s, and became proficient with various weaponry. Since the third grade I have been a student of the history of military aircraft, especially World War II.

As a published author of many short stories and four young adult novels I’m ready to help students create with the written word. In creative writing I teach the power of the word, the beauty of the sentence, the joy of the completed story. As a university instructor in critical reading/writing, I learned that a good author won’t tell you anything. A good author wants to see what you see after you read his/her book. We will learn how to know what we see and how to talk and write about it.

As a dad I homeschooled all eight of my children to support positive, independent thinking. I kept reading with my children long after they could read for themselves—until they left for college. I advocate reading and writing with classroom presentations and programs. I’ve been mentoring youth writers in the Juab Jotters writing group for several years.

When I’m not teaching you will find me pursuing my own never ending education, playing computer games with my children (great family time), cosplaying (last year it was Mystery Men), and spending time with my children and grandchildren (soon to be six).

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