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Private 1-to-1 English Language Arts Tutoring - Reach for It and Succeed!

In these one-on-one sessions, your learner will become more self-confident, enthusiastic, and successful, as we focus on their trouble spots and build up their comprehension, close reading, critical thinking, and creative thinking!
Alaina Bell Gao
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(424)
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What's included

Meets on Demand
schedule meetings as needed
50 mins
per session
Teacher support

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
Are you looking for one-on-one English support for your child? I can help with beginning reading (including for dyslexic learners), reading comprehension, literary analysis, creative writing, essay writing, and gifted education!

-Gentle & encouraging
-Experience with neurodivergent learners
-Creative approach
-Celebration of every contribution and success
-Interactive activities including drama, dramatic reading, annotation, singing, brainstorming, tables, illustration, art, games, wordplay, creative writing, and personal projects
-Systematic, multisensory phonics instruction with fun, adventurous decodable readers that I have created for my learners
-Critical thinking questions and discussion beyond simple reading comprehension
-Comparison with other novels, short stories, articles, poems, and real life
-Personalized lessons based on years of teaching experience, your child's needs, your goals, and the American Common Core Standards and/or Ontario English Curriculum (other curriculum standards available upon request)

Sample projects my learners have completed:
🌟make a song to remember words
🌟conduct research & design a game
🌟self-publish a book
🌟read and annotate a novel
🌟rewrite a book from another point of view
🌟illustrate a story
🌟fill in a characterization chart
🌟plan, write, revise, and edit an essay
🌟add music and sound effects for a reader's theatre
🌟use puppets to roleplay the story
🌟complete a scavenger hunt by scanning for vocabulary in the novel
🌟write as the character in their diary
🌟create a poster advertising a new version of the story and pitch your idea
🌟choose music for a production of the story
🌟write a summarizing poem
🌟illustrate a poem
🌟write an alternate ending or a sequel
🌟find examples of figurative language and syntax

Tell me what your child needs support with and whether you/they have any preferred novels or materials to use in our lessons. The lessons will differ based on your input and the learner's needs.

Suggested Literature (Choose 1 or 2 depending on how much reading your child can complete independently):
📖Questioneers
📖Zoey and Sassafras
📖Mia Mayhem
📖Charlotte's Web
📖Stuart Little
📖Ramona Quimby, Age 8
📖Superfudge
📖The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
📖Flora & Ulysses
📖Because of Winn-Dixie
📖From the Desk of Zoe Washington
📖The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
📖Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
📖Starry River of the Sky
📖When the Sea Turned to Silver
📖Before the Sword
📖The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
📖Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
📖Inside Out and Back Again
📖Esperanza Rising
📖The Girl Who Drank the Moon
📖Mysterious Benedict Society
📖The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories)
📖The One & Only Ivan
📖Nowhere Boy
📖New From Here
📖The War That Saved My Life
📖Amari and the Night Brothers
📖From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
📖The Giver
📖Gathering Blue
📖Messenger
📖Son
📖The Last Cuentista
📖The Wild Robot
📖Greenglass House
📖Goldfish Boy
📖Fish in a Tree
📖Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
📖The Wee Free Men
📖The Birchbark House
📖Wildwood
📖The Last Cuentista
📖Hunger Games
📖Animal Farm
📖Anne of Green Gables
📖The House on Mango Street
📖A Raisin in the Sun
📖1984
📖Brave New World
📖Frankenstein
📖Hamlet
📖The Grapes of Wrath
📖The Hobbit
📖The Joy Luck Club
📖I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
📖The Great Gatsby
📖Lord of the Flies
📖Native Son
📖Native Speaker
📖Their Eyes Were Watching God
📖Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
📖The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
📖The Woman Warrior

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External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
  • Youtube
Joined January, 2020
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424reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in English from University of Windsor
Associate's Degree in English from Canadian College of Educators
Professionally, I am a juniour high and high school English teacher, but I also have extensive experience tutoring and teaching classes for younger learners (as evidenced by my many classes and reviews on Outschool for various age groups).

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Ages: 5-18

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