1:1 課堂輔導：閱讀、自然拼讀、拼字、文法和寫作 |埃拉

This one-on-one private tutoring course is for young learners who need help with English related concepts in regard to reading, phonics, spelling, writing, and grammar. All listed group courses are now offered privately for your convenience. 

Classes will meet once a week for 30 minutes at a time.

At Shields Scholars, we have an array of English and reading courses ranging from very beginner and learning letter sounds to leveled reading and context reading up to level I. In terms of age, these academic abilities generally range from 3 years old up to about 8 years old.

For one-on-one tutoring, you and your learner choose which areas they need help with. See course lessons offered below and their summaries. The courses are listed in order starting with very beginner and slowly advancing from there. You can see how many lessons each course contains, but you are under no obligation to finish one course before moving onto the next one. Please be in communication with your teacher on if the lessons are too easy or too difficult and we will adjust your future lessons as need be as your child advances their skills. Your teacher will also give you feedback and help you determine which course would benefit your child the most based on their immediate needs.

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NEARPOD:
All courses use NearPod, which is an interactive resource for learners to use and participate in during the lessons. NearPod has games of all kinds relevant to the lesson at hand to help with engagement and retainment of information and lesson materials. 

If you are new to NearPod, below is a parent/guardian demo lesson for you to experiment with  and see first hand whether your child will enjoy it or not. **NearPod is COPPA compliant and an approved Outschool resource.**
You can access NearPod lessons from either the website or the app. 

For the parent demo lesson copy/paste this link to your browser: https://app.nearpod.com/?pin=7ij5g
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Download the NearPod application on a tablet or smartphone and enter code: 7ij5g

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COURSES BY AGE:

Beginners: (3+ years old)

READING CAN BE PUZZLING: CVC WORD BLENDING, PHONICS, AND SPELLING PRACTICE (30 Lessons)

This course teaches 4 letters (1 vowel and 3 consonants) and their phonetic sounds in each lesson. We focus heavily on using synthetic phonics when teaching each letter and practice relating each letter sound to real-life pictures for context. Then, we work on CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) blending with the letters relevant to the lesson by using puzzle pieces. Finally, each lessons ends with learning 3-4 "popcorn words" (sight and high frequency words) to work on linear reading. Each word is paired with a silly photo acting as a mnemonic device to aid in memory. Mostly, this exercise is to begin the habit of reading left to right, only reading what they see on the page, and confidence building. 

**Synthetic phonics is when words are broken down to the smallest units of sound, called phonemes, then blended together to sound out the word correctly with no additional sounds or guessing. An example of using synthetic phonics versus traditional or analytic phonics, would be learning the letters /Mm/, /Nn/, or /Ll/. Traditionally, children learned that the /Mm/ sound said, 'muh, muh, muh' and the /Ll/ sound said, 'la, la, la'. This makes decoding and blending words much more difficult because adding the 'uh' sounds at the end also adds an unnecessary vowel and sometimes extra syllable. If we taught beginning readers to sound out the word 'milk', for instance, it would be broken down as 'muh-i-la-k'. 'Muhilak' does not sound the same as 'milk'.**

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READING CAN BE PUZZLING: LONG VOWELS (10 Lessons)

This course is a bit more difficult than the above course and is for learners who know their letters, phonetic sounds, and more or less how to blend simple CVC words together independently.
This course focuses on using vowel digraphs and long vowel sound patterns often used in English for all 5 vowels - a, e, i, o, and u. Long vowel sounds are easy to remember, but the spellings and patterns often are not. For example, the long /a/ sound can be spelled using the following rules:
Bossy 'e' - cake
ai - pair
ay - say
eigh - freight
Open syllables - baby

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Intermediate:

READING CAN BE PUZZLING: POPCORN WORDS (27 Lessons)

This course specifically teaches sight and high frequency words such as: the, a, some, my, on, in, between, etc.
The concepts of sight and high frequency words are often used interchangeably, but the definitional differences are in that we recognize sight words as words that are often unable to be "sounded out" or that do not follow traditional phonics rules. We memorize what they look like and recognize the word as a whole rather than independent phonemes (the, some, have, give). High frequency words are a bit different in that they do follow phonetic English rules, but they are so often used that we teach them similarly to sight words and to be remembered as wholes (this, he, his). This course is extremely helpful for learners to take prior to beginning leveled reading courses since it is taught in an organized fashion and in a way that makes sense from start to finish.

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Leveled Reading  


These classes will focus on reading actual stories and using conversation, context clues, and pictures to aid in comprehension and reading skills. The classes will be organized in a linear fashion using story themes.

Level C (10 Lessons)
Stories will use plenty of CVC words and a few sight words but repeat throughout the story to aid in memory and confidence.


Level D (10 Lessons)
Stories will be longer with more adjectives and adverbs and varying sentence formations. Stories will begin to include simple digraphs (th, ph, sh, and ch) and using more long vowels.


Level E (16 Lessons)
Stories will begin to vary more and more and follow a more complex structure. They will also include more consonant digraphs (th, ph, sh, ch) and vowel digraphs (ai, ea) as well as diphthongs.


If you know your child's reading level and it is above the course levels listed above, please reach out with a direct message with that information so we can prepare ahead of time. :)

If you do not know your child's reading level, let us know and we can do a formal assessment, so we know exactly where to start with them. 


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