I will carefully structure each lesson to meet the individual needs of your child, directly teaching the specific skills the child needs to be successful in reading, spelling, or math. I will review skills, as needed, so that the child can gain a solid foundation and understanding of the material presented.  Each lesson will follow the same format, helping the child to feel secure and gain confidence. In each lesson, there will be a warm-up, a review of skills previously taught, and a new skill introduced and practiced.  During the first two sessions, I will informally assess the student.  That information will then be used to create a program that is tailored to their specific needs.  The program will be multi-sensory, so visual, auditory, and kinesthetic approaches will be employed simultaneously throughout each lesson.  For example, information will be presented visually and auditorily, but I will also demonstrate and incorporate table writing, arm tapping, sky writing, finger spelling, the use of manipulatives and many other interactive modes of learning.  I will implement the "I do, we do, you do" teaching method in each lesson to ensure understanding.   Parental feedback is welcome and changes to lesson content and format can be easily made upon parent request.  

Possible Reading and Spelling lesson topics may include:
phonemic awareness:  rhyming, onset rime, segmenting, blending, adding, deleting and substituting
short and long vowels
discrimination between vowel sounds
blends
digraphs
Floss Rule
-ng and -nk word families
soft c and g
short vowel protectors -ck, -tch and -dge
contractions
Vowel-R combinations
Vowel Team combinations
syllable patterns: Closed, Open, Magic E, Bossy R, Vowel Teams and Consonant L-E 
syllable division rules
spelling rules: Doubling Rule, E Drop Rule, Y Change Rule
prefixes
suffixes
base words vs. root words
connectives
parts of speech
understanding terms such as "infer," "summary," "theme," "conclude," "illustrate"
understanding point of view
understanding use of quotation marks

Possible Math topics include: 
patterns
counting
subitizing
number sense
determining more than and less than
mental math
place value 
addition strategies
skip counting
understanding symmetry
understanding terms like "sum," "difference," "product," and "quotient"
converting units of length
multiplication practice
money
telling time
subtraction
division
graphing 
reading graphs, charts, and line plots
measurement
converting measures
geometry
angles
volume
fractions
mixed numbers
exponents
decimals
Order of Operations (PEMDAS)
story problems