Reading Masters 1:1 Science of Reading Tutoring for Struggling Reader, Dyslexia

Welcome to an ongoing tutoring class designed to foster fluent reading skills in your student. Reading fluency involves complex skills such as phonological awareness, phoneme segmentation, blending, recognizing sight words, and isolation. These skills form a stepping stone for proficient reading, and addressing any learning blocks in these areas is pivotal to preventing future reading difficulties. Based on my experience with struggling readers, many challenges often arise from issues related to these foundational skills.

In this course, my goal is to establish a strong foundation for students to become fluent readers and improve their reading comprehension. The course begins with a formal reading fluency diagnostic to assess individual needs. Using the diagnostic results, I'll create a personalized plan to meet each student's requirements.

**Struggling Readers:**

This course is not only for struggling readers but also for those with learning exceptionalities, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, reading anxiety, English language learners, and other challenges. The primary focus is on building and strengthening the foundational aspects of successful reading. Students will engage in evidence-based reading strategies, including blending exercises, short and long vowel practice, digraph and trigraph practice, CVC words, spelling, sentence composition, and fluency exercises. Custom-tailored presentations will also ignite students' interest and encourage active participation.

The class heavily integrates the Orton-Gillingham methodology, which is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, and cognitive. The McGraw Hill Reading Intervention Tier I, II, and III program further enhances the curriculum, supporting reading fluency and spelling. Every student will receive the most suitable program and topics aligned with their needs. An initial assessment during the first class ensures accurate program placement. For students dealing with test anxiety, alternative assessment methods are available upon prior notice.

**Lesson Structure and Outline:**

1. Alphabet drills and sounds review
2. Blending drills and strategies
3. Word reading
4. Sight word drill and activities
5. Sentence Reading
6. Spelling drills
7. Sentence dictation/writing
8. High-interest text reading/decodable texts

**Learning Outline: Approximately 50 min of Activities**

1. Warm-up
2. Lesson lecture
3. Guided Practice with teacher
4. Independent practice activity (post-class)

**Students will receive a link to complete the independent practice.**
Feedback on the independent practice will be provided in the next class.

Reading intervention Target Skills that are addressed in this class:

✅Topic A:  Phonemic Awareness
1. Deletion, Addition, Substitution
2. Blend and Segment
3. Beg, Mid, End Sounds
4. Onset-Rime
5. Syllables

✅Topic B: Phonics (This topic can be exchanged for topic D) 
1. Multi-Syllabic Words
2. Prefixes
3. Base words
4. plural ending
5. long vowels
6. inflectional endings
7.  Visual / auditory phonemic awareness
8. sight words
9. letter linking blending
10. letter sounds
11. letter names
12. Spelling

✅Topic C: Spelling/ Writing
1. Woven-In Spelling strategies
2. Spelling drills
3. Spelling rules such as Floss and Schwa. 
5. Sentence Dictation


✅Topic D: Fluency (This topic can be exchanged for topic C) 
1. Reading independently
2. Reading rate exercises
3. Inflections
4. Self-correcting exercises
5. Reading with expression
6. Phrasing 
7. Using punctuation when reading


Pre-Reading Skills

1. Weekly sight words activities 
2. Weekly phonics games, such as I-spy, memory, and digital games.
3. Alphabet sounds mastery.
3. Sound blending exercises and activities and reading practice.
4. Hands on practice using a digital white board.
5. Interactive slide presentations that make learning more engaging. 
6. Progressive reading practice
7. Additional activities based on student needs
8. Membership to Brainzy online learning games 
9. Account for Get epic digital library

Intermediate Reader: 

1. Fry grade level sight words
2. Weekly phonics games, such as I-spy, memory, and digital games.
3. Vowel Teams
4. Sound blending exercises and activities and reading practice.
5. Digraph, Trigraph consonant blending
5. Interactive slide presentations that make learning more engaging. 
6. Progressive reading practice
7. Additional activities based on student needs
8. Membership to Brainzy online learning games 
9. Account for Get epic digital library
10. Fluency exercises

Upper Elementary/ Middle school intervention

1. Fry sight words for grade level
2. Complex vowel and consonant word study
3. Fluency exercises 
4. Suffix and Prefix study

I hope to see you there! 
 Throughout this course, students will become more confident in their reading capabilities.  



I am excited to meet your student!