My Services

My sessions can focus on a combination of ELA and Math or Science, or just one subject for deeper depth of knowledge.

ELA

Depending on age and skill level, I customize ELA practice to nurture early phase literacy confidence. Activities and games explore letter recognition, print familiarity, read-alouds (dialogic readings), and writing. I try to put less focus on decoding text and reaching calculable reading benchmarks for children ages three- five, it's important those early age children don't bypass on their age appropriate expression of reading, thinking and language work and play that happens when they are turning the pages of books. I incorporate what the child is interested in naturally to build their exposure to higher tier words, and expand their vocabulary. To help early writer's grasp the direction of drawing lines and the sequence to write a letter on a page, I demonstrate first, and that model support their letter formation.

Benefits of Read-Alouds:

• Develop their listening and comprehension with the emotional components of this book, using receptive listening and processing skills.

• Develop their oral language skills, expressive language.

• Work towards increasing writing skills, including phonetic. For example, sounding out letters while they write.

Benefits from print familiarity and letter recognition activities:

• Early print awareness supports letter and sound correspondence, word reading skills, leading to reading and understanding text confidentially.

• Exploring print in books leads to strong literacy foundation through early exposure to learning that print imports meaning, flow in a book, letter and word recognition, upper and lower case letters, grammar, and punctuation.

Benefits of vocabulary:

• Vocabulary familiarity delivers critical groundwork for later reading comprehension. Children with narrow vocabularies and background context often need many occasions to learn a new word. It’s been proven that one successful way to promote vocabulary attainment for young children is to provide opportunities for children to acquire new words through routines (classroom, home, tutoring). (Rahn, 2022)

• Children with strong vocabulary often go on to become good readers with strong comprehension skills.

Benefits of early mark making, letter practice, and drawing:

• Fine motor development

• Nurture the instinctive process of the ways mark making, writing, and drawing can figure out the environment around them.

Math

Using what students in my class at present comprehend, using references from their familiar world (family, stories, songs, sports) to show that there are similarities in math to be found in their world at present.  Foster their inherent curiosity and awareness of math to help them process physical and social ideas that come up for their age in everyday life.  For example, with students ages four and above I work on subitizing and counting with a number line.

It has been established that children who have learned to order numbers using subitizing matching and counting by the ages of four to five years old (Clements & Sarama, 2014) have better foundational knowledge for advanced math in later years. In addition, it has been theorized that children who have more exposure to mathematical teaching where the students have to understand creating and learning a mental number line, are well prepared to order numbers greater or less than, than older students who did not get the same style of teaching (Griffin, Case, & Siegler, 1994).