Reading Tutor in Burleson, TX and surrounding areas.

• Phonics. Letter sounds, blends, digraphs, and decoding new words.
• Fluency. Reading aloud at a comfortable rate with expression.
• Comprehension. Pulling main ideas, details, and inferences from a passage.
• Vocabulary. Building word knowledge through context and roots.
• Word problems. Many "math" struggles are actually reading-comprehension struggles in disguise.

• Reads aloud slowly or skips unfamiliar words.
• Cannot summarize what was just read.
• Avoids reading or says "I'm bad at reading."
• Is being pulled for reading intervention at school.
• Struggles with the reading parts of math word problems.

Sessions for elementary and middle school readers run an hour with breaks as necessary. Fun educational games make the time go quickly. For ESL (English as a second language) students, Steve emphasizes English conversational skills and whatever additional areas the student would like to focus on. For younger students, Steve mixes reading aloud, vocabulary work, and short comprehension drills, and he aligns the work with the student's actual assignments where possible. For families combining reading and math support, see grade school math.

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