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Do you need a patient, experienced and expert reading teacher to get your child/teen/young adult/adult on grade level reading or to aid in their comprehension? I have been an elementary teacher, Literacy Coach, Literacy Specialist, Parent Educator and Professional Staff developer for 20+years. I am available for private tutoring in reading, writing and other subjects. My specialty is reading acquisition and writing. I focus on increasing a young student's reading fluency, comprehension and decoding. I have a Masters in Education from Bank Street Education I generally grow a student's reading 1.5 - 2 academic years within a calendar school year. References available upon request. I am available on regularly select weekdays, weeknights and weekends.

Personally, I am a voracious reader of adult/young adult/children's literature. I struggled to learn to read as a child, and I am completely attuned to the frustrations readers encounter. Teaching reading has become a passion and mission that accidentally found me. My pre and post graduate education has always revolved around language and reading acquisition. My intentions were only to be an elementary classroom teacher teaching multiple subjects. Student feedback, parental feedback, data analysis and administrative feedback showed my methods have been consistently highly effective.

My personal experience learning to read, who struggled with Phonics, serves the population of readers who struggle with Phonics. It is a culmination of my life experience, lifetime of education, and personal student success stories that aid struggling readers. I have studied under New York Reading Reform, Bank Street College of Education, Teachers College of Columbia University, Nanci Atwell, Fountas and Pinnell. It is my deep understanding of the three cueing systems meaning (Semantic), Structure (Syntactic), Visual (Graphophonic), that allows me to adjust instruction as needed for each reader.

I have over 20 years collective years of teaching elementary in urban publi" less...