Learning Loft Tutoring

My goal is to develop customized, strategic-based instruction for each student that meets their individual needs.  The goal is to build a foundation of reading, writing, and math skills that students can apply to their regular school program. Over the previous eight years of teaching, I have found the following programs to be very effective and continue to use them with my tutoring students.

Reading & Spelling

Wilson Reading System is a multi-sensory, research-based method for teaching reading. It follows a systemic and cumulative approach that builds phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, fluency, and comprehension.  I am a Wilson Reading System Level 1 certified teacher (since 2007).

Writing Development

Landmark Writing is designed to teach children with language-based learning disabilities how to break down the task of writing into smaller, more manageable components by organizing, sequencing, and elaborating on ideas using frameworks to write sentences and paragraphs.

Reading Comprehension

Intervention: Comprehension is an instructional tool that provides direct, systematic instruction and guided practice with reading comprehension strategies.  Students use the strategies of connecting, questioning, predicting, imaging, and inferring to better understand the main ideas in stories of various literary genres.

Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking assists learners to develop reading comprehension skills by creating gestalts from oral and written language. Significant improvements are seen in reading comprehension, oral language comprehension, oral language expression, written language expression, and critical thinking.

Math Mastery

Digi-blocks are designed to enable students to internalize and apply the mathematical core concepts through guided discovery. The focus of this program is to gain mastery of number sense, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations using conventional algorithms by using concrete manipulatives (blocks). Math fact mastery will also be included.

Study Skills

Assist students with managing time, organizing materials and information.