Ms. Lynn specializes in online tutoring for struggling readers. Combined with formal and informal assessments, Ms. Lynn’s experience and training in the Science of Reading ensure that your child’s areas of need will be identified and addressed. Tutoring will be personalized to your child’s strengths, challenges, and interests and provided at the pace which provides for optimal growth.
Online tutoring is provided in your home, with no travel time. Your child is in an environment which is familiar and comfortable, and you are nearby to provide support if needed.
Students meet with Ms. Lynn in 50-minute sessions two to three times a week. This allows time to review previously taught skills, learn new material, and practice the new learning during the tutoring sessions. Practice outside of lessons is optional but highly encouraged. Younger students may need to begin with sessions as short as 25 minutes to maintain their focus and enthusiasm.
Lynn has been an amazing tutor for my son with complex support needs. He has autism, ADHD, anxiety, and Fragile X and we were told by many professionals to just try and have him memorize sight words. However, we wanted him to learn the real way to decode words. Lynn not only had a wealth of knowledge about structured literacy and evidence-based practices for reading instruction, she also presumed competence for our son! She worked with us to design a totally individualized program to teach him how to read. We worked with her remotely over the course of the past 3 years and we are so proud to say our son is able to read text fluently now. My son connected with her so well even via Zoom and he loved to see pictures of her dog and grandchildren:)
Danielle
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 that 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.
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, sentence structure, and comprehension skills.
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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