NYC Tutor Express specializes in the following skills:
- Early Education Enrichment – Upper and lower case letter recognition and letter formation, following directions, vocabulary enrichment, and identifying the sounds they hear at the beginning, middle, and end of words
- Pre-reading skills – Letter/sound recognition, auditory comprehension, open-ended questions, vocabulary enrichment, rhyming, sequencing, predicting, and drawing conclusions.
- Reading – Phonics, reading fluency, phonemic awareness, oral comprehension, learning different reading strategies, and reading skills.
- Pre-writing skills – Proper pencil grip, tracing, shape recognition, practicing fine motor activities, crossing the midline
- Writing – Practicing writing a 5-star sentence, learning different writing strategies, the writing process, pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing.
- Early numeracy and math skills – Number recognition skills, pre-geometry skills, counting, sorting, matching, shape recognition, color recognition, and number patterns.
- Reading Comprehension – Questioning, wondering, making connections, and “digging deeper” into the story.
- Test preparation – Reviewing good study skills, test taking skills, and dealing with test anxiety.
Organizational Coaching– Teaching time management, organizational strategies and managing “paper madness”
Every winter I offer an intensive 1-week session in remediation and enrichment focusing on:
- Reader’s workshop
- Writer’s workshop
- Social Skills workshop focusing on the social/emotional aspects of learning
Every summer I offer intensive 3-week sessions in remediation and enrichment focusing on:
- Writer’s workshop
- Reader’s workshop
- Social Skills workshop focusing on the social/emotional aspects of learning
- Summer reading and summer projects
