Does your child learn differently? Is the pace of classroom learning frustrating? Are there gaps in your child’s learning due to past instruction or attention challenges? Ms. Lynn Nichols is a Special Educator specializing in virtual 1:1 tutoring that supports your child in the areas of reading and executive function skills.
Ms. Lynn provides Structured Linguistic Literacy lessons based upon the Reading Simplified methodology are tailored to the strengths, challenges, and interests of your child. Engaging activities and ongoing assessments help your child meet their learning goals. We have fun, build confidence, and celebrate success!
Reading Simplified is one of a few programs that are evidence based and proven to be effective in teaching students who struggle with language-based learning challenges. Each lesson begins with clear goals for the time together then follows a general pattern.
As a precursor to learning, students are guided through the Reading Simplified Switch It! activity to practice manipulating and writing real or nonsense words at the right level, from CVC to CCVCC.
Word Work consists of a word sort, such as Sort It! to identify, speak, and write the target sound of the day. This work is crucial to the understanding that letters represent sounds, and that a sound can have more than one correct spelling.
Finally, Ms. Lynn supports the student reading connected text to further embed the target sound in the student’s long-term memory. Multiple opportunities for additional practice include reading in an area of student interest, word, phrase, and sentence writing, and games including word scrambles, concentration, word search, or minute to win it.
“Ms. Nichols is dedicated to helping children learn to read. Her methodology is rooted in science and delivered with compassion.”
Tara Boucher, Reading Specialist, Baltimore Lab School
Students often progress through learning the short and advanced vowel sounds over the course of an academic year of tutoring, and they continue on to reading authentic text fluently with an emphasis on comprehension. My goal as a Reading Simplified practitioner is to get your student reading and understanding text as quickly as possible. We then work more extensively on spelling and on sentence construction and on reading and responding to different types of text: fiction, nonfiction, and articles.
Is your child ready to succeed in an area of real struggle? Are you ready to try what may be a new approach for your child? Use the form below to reach out today!
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