Private Tutoring: Spell to Write and Read/Spalding Method

Completed by 9 learners

Ages 6-10

Live 1-on-1 Lessons

Tutoring will strengthen their knowledge of the sounds of speech and spelling rules by building reference charts, and spelling lists. We will review with Bitpaper board games, practice, and Quizlet activities.

Susan Franklin

Average rating:

4.7

Number of reviews:

(48 reviews)

Live video meetings

Meets 2x per week (teacher suggestion)

Meets on demand

30 min

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What’s included

Meets on Demand

schedule meetings as needed

30 mins

per session

Teacher support

Mastery Evaluation

2-4 hours per week. QRI-6 Word Identification Assessment Woodcock Word Attack Test SWR Spelling Diagnostic Test Occasionally: QRI6 Reading by Analogy Test

Assessment

Students will receive an initial assessment and ongoing quarterly assessments.

Class Experience

US Grade Kindergarten - 3

Beginner - Intermediate Level

Students will create their own Learning Log with reference student will read from these lists and build their skills by becoming word detectives, analyzing the words using the phonograms and spelling rules to define how to spell and read them.  The best of children's literature will be used to engage each student's imagination with fresh ideas and beautiful artwork. Students will start each lesson with this bit of literature, then move to a phonogram drill or quiz; next, we will dictate either words onto a reference page, or ten words from the current spelling list. Finally, we will play a game or practice applying the knowledge while sounding out words in Whizzimo (screenshared).  I also like to ask the students if they can tell me what they learned at the end with no pressure. My style is direct, but friendly and helpful.

Learning Goals

Students will work through the Wise Guide for Spelling, building their own spelling journal as they see, hear, write and say each phonogram as it is dictated to them by the teacher.  Then they write these same words neatly into their spelling journal.  Each word is broken down by syllable and phonogram.  Spelling markings are applied, and relevant spelling rules are reviewed or noted as we work through the lists together.  Occasionally, we add a new reference chart, such as personal pronouns, prefixes, suffixes, days of the week, numbers, etc.   Topics covered will be vowels, consonants, phonograms, spelling rules, sentence structure, affixes, nouns, pronouns, verbs, and more.

Other Details

Learning Needs

This class is customized tutoring, which would benefit students with dyslexia or others struggling to learn to read. I work with each child as an individual and try to meet them where they are.

Parental Guidance

Students should have already received instruction in writing letters correctly and consistently before taking this course. We will use Google Slides, WordWall.org, and Bitpaper.io for practicing sounding out words and spelling them as I share my screen.

Pre-Requisites

Students should know their alphabet and be able to write their letters reasonably well.

Supply List

Students should have a designated notebook with supplies in a pencil pouch: pencils, a large eraser, red erasable marking pencil, a six-inch ruler, notebook paper. Optional Learning Log and phonogram cards from bhibooks.net

1 file available upon enrollment

External Resources

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:

Sources

We use the Wise Guide to Spelling and Spell to Write and Read as our foundation of this course.

Meet the teacher

Susan Franklin

Joined October, 2019

4.7

48reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

For ten years I taught this program with my two homeschooled children, who have excelled academically and are independent and pursuing careers in the military and marketing.   For four years, I was a been a teacher in a charter school where I taught English, Speech, and Theater for two years.  Then, after seeing fantastic progress using SWR in my privately tutored elementary students, I asked to become a reading interventionist.  My principal moved me into this position where, over the next two school years, I helped both elementary and middle school students improve their skills.  Since 2019, I have been tutoring online full-time.   Many of my students have advanced multiple grade levels in reading skills in two to three months. Often they move on to focusing on writing and grammar lessons and several have earned academic awards and scholarships at their schools.