Tutoring

Specialist Teaching

This is NOT just another tutoring service. Specialist teaching is DIFFERENT.

Dyslexic children and those with Specific Learning Difficulties learn differently to other individuals. They require individually tailored programs that are sequenced correctly and multi-sensory. Often students have compensated for weaknesses and masked their difficulties which means they have poor foundations from which they are working and rely on guessing to find the answer.



Tutoring sessions aim to teach word attack skills and strategies to build a stronger foundation. Success is achieved through being exposed to a metacognitive teaching strategy and the most up-to-date resources available that are multisensory and support the working memory.

The Way Tutoring Is Organised

The approach we use is multisensory. The term multisensory refers to the strategy of involving and linking the student’s eye, ear and hand to bolster learning.

Group sessions have no more than 3 students and all work on their own individual programs and are taught by a specialist teacher. Homework is given each week to facilitate, review and practice reading fluency and comprehension. Private sessions are tailored to the individual who wishes one-on-one time or greater flexibility within the structured time frame.

Our aim is to make each student feel comfortable, experience success, gain knowledge and practice through a multisensory phonics approach.

Our Tutoring Prices

Individual sessions are conducted 1:1 and on a weekly basis. These sessions are individually tailored to meet the student’s current needs. If a student has a diagnosis, that report is used to help inform the type and structure of the intervention. In an individual session we have the flexibility to cover a number of areas of need and at the individual pace of the student. All programs use a direct and explicit instruction method, this incorporates using a multi sensory approach.

Primary mathematics students are assessed in their initial session to determine what skills are needed and the areas of the curriculum that need reinforcing. Ensuring that each student has a strong foundation in basic maths skills of number, fractions, decimals and percentages (especially in the upper years). All students have access to an online program that can be used at home for extra practice. This program can be monitored by the tutor to see if extra help is required. Our program is not just for struggling maths students but also for those who need extra work to maintain their grades or those who need to be extended.

Grade topics are covered with students expected to complete enough work to develop automaticity with the topics that underpin and are necessary for further learning in mathematics.

Sessions are tailored to cover all topics in these grades with an experienced maths teacher. Work is designed around the student’s needs with access to multiple past papers and resources to ensure a full understanding of each topic is reached.

These individual sessions focus on 2 areas; teaching the student the writing process, which includes the mechanics of writing: spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. The other is to help the student understand their assignments and plan their essay. In these sessions if the student wishes to focus on their spelling and just sentence structure, these foundational skills can also be addressed.

This is a relatively new initiative for CLDC, we currently run small group sessions for mathematics and shared reading sessions, but we are introducing small group sessions for both reading and writing. Please keep reading for a description of our groups.

Reading 

Each lesson follows a structured approach and covers; Phonemic Awareness, Reading and Spelling, Vocabulary, Reading Fluency and Comprehension. 



Lesson is sequential and limited to three to a group. There will be three groups running with one covering closed syllables, silent-e syllables and early vowel teams. Another covering, more advanced vowel teams and early prefixes and suffixes. The third group will cover r-controlled vowels, soft C & G and all other affixes. 

Writing

We are now using an explicit teaching writing program that covers years 3-12. It covers all aspects of writing, but we will use three of them as a Fundamental Writing Course. We will cover, Reading for Comprehension as it relates to writing, Vocabulary and Foundations of Writing. From here students can move into 1:1 session to focus on the other aspects of writing, like narrative, persuasive and essay writing etc. Groups will be organised in years, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. 



This is an explicit, direct instruction program. 

Groups will begin at the beginning of each term. 

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