Overview
Our writing tutors builds the skills, techniques and confidence your child needs to become an effective writer. Our reading tutors assess just what your child needs to keep up with reading assignments, take on advanced classes or simply turn B’s into A’s. Our conversation tutors will ensure your child have proper pronounciation through speaking exercises. Using a personal teaching approach, our tutors will help your child thrive.
Elementary School Tutoring
Reading
- Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
- Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
- Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
- Answer questions about a text after reading it
- Read grade-level texts quickly and with accuracy
- Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
- Understand how punctuation impacts fluency
Writing
- Apply the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
- Sharpen vocabulary and spelling skills
- Master writing techniques, including paragraph and essay development
- Master grammar and punctuation rules
High School Tutoring
Reading
- Develop the ability to comprehend difficult texts
- Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words
- Understand and interpret the meaning of new words
- Anticipate how information in a text will need to be utilized
- Analyze literature
Writing
- Utilize the writing process effectively, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
- Apply composition techniques, including thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
- Approach different types of composition and essay assignments, including descriptive, illustrative, compare and contrast, cause and effect and persuasive writing
- Learn from text–based assignments, including analyzing long passages, outlining main ideas, writing summaries and understanding the requirements of a major research paper
English Tutor Network Advantages
- Custom learning plan
- Progress Tracking
- Flexible Scheduling
- No contract required