Three/Quarter Time Accelerated One-to-One Instruction for Struggling Readers

Three-Quarter Time Tutoring offers one-on-one tailored teaching to meet the need(s) of every student in a 45-minute time frame that may be most appropriate for them. 

Students will learn letter/sound correspondence, blending sounds together to form words and skills to decode new words through incremental, systematic phonics instruction. While there is no background knowledge required for this course, an individual diagnostic placement test is required at no additional cost.

Participants will complete an average of 1 lesson per 40-minute session. Independent assignments are an integral part of instruction and must be completed before the next scheduled session. Students are evaluated daily via verbal participation and completed written exercises. Benchmark Mastery tests are provided to be sure necessary skills are attained and retained. 

Acceleration (meaning: more than one year skillset can be obtained in less than one year's time) is offered for struggling readers- particularly those more than one year below grade level to up to 7 years behind. 

Sample Goals:
Weekly Session Topics/Skills:
Week 1: 
Word Attack Skills: Hear and say sounds (such as: a, d, m, s, t, ee, r); match sounds to letters (such as: a, d, m, r, s, t, e); say words (such as: me, meet, ram, see, sat, at, eat, am) read words (such as: me, meet, ram, sat, sad, rat, see, ma, at, am)
Worksheet exercises: Write the letter for the sound heard (such as: i, r, m, e, t, a, s, d)
Support Activities: match letter to identical letter; write identical letter, given letter; write words from dictation (such as: me, am, at, ma); letter find - circle the all the given letter (such as: m, etc.) in a line of letters.
Reading Checkouts: Read sets of practiced words individually, with no more than one error. 
Benchmark Test: Sound out then read words (such as me, ram, sat) with no mistakes. 

Week 2: 
Word Attack Skills: Hear and say sounds (such as: a, f, s, k, h, m, t, ee, r); match sounds to letters (such as: a, d, m, r, s, t, e); say words (such as: fee, if, fish, sam, she, miff, rim, we, fat) read words (such as: seed, feet, ram, sat, sad, rat, seem, seed, feet, mitt, at, id)
Worksheet exercises: Write the letter for the sound heard (such as: i, r, m, e, t, a, s, d, f, h, c); word reading; word completion; word copying
Support Activities: matching sounds; write identical letter, given letter; write words from dictation (such as: mid, ram, fat, sit, rim); letter find - circle the all the given letter (such as: m, c,  etc.) in a line of letters.
Reading Checkouts: Read sets of practiced words individually, with no more than one error. 
Benchmark Test: Say the sounds for words (auditory only such as: wwwiiishshsh, aaat); Sound out then read words (such as: if, seem, rim, feed, sad, fat) with no mistakes.