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Amanda
- Rate 220AED
- Response 14h
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Students4
Number of students accompanied by Amanda since their arrival at Superprof
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220AED/hr
1st lesson free
- English
- Reading
- Literacy
- Spelling
- Test prep
Certified Reading/ Spelling Teacher with 15 years Experience Trained in Orton Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, and UFLI Teaching Methods
- English
- Reading
- Literacy
- Spelling
- Test prep
Lesson location
Recommended
Amanda is a respected tutor in our community. She is highly recommended for her commitment and the quality of her lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Amanda
As a dual certified teacher and speech language pathologist I pride myself in providing an empathetic, compassionate, and enthusiastic approach to helping every student significantly improve their reading skills and every student a voice in the classroom. I have 20 years of experience in teaching reading. I ove reading and I strive to inspire every student I work with to enjoy reading as well! I started my journey to teaching reading with a BA in elementary and special education from Providence College. In that process, I realized a passion to give every student access to and confidence in communication. This began with a masters degree from NYU in Communication Sciences and Disorders. From that point forward I have been dual certified as an teacher and a speech language pathologist. This helps me to get to the route of any reading or oral language problem. I have guided my students to significant success (1-3 years of grade level progress), whether it is based in breaking words into sounds to help them read or using sounds to make words to help them spell. I am trained in Orton Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading, and UFLI reading approaches. I have also helped students to achieve that same level of progress with their oral language comprehension or reading comprehension, including vocabulary, sentence comprehension, and/or comprehension of informational text or literature. Bring on the challenge- I will guide your student to reading success with compassion, empathy, and expertise!
About the lesson
- Kindergarten
- Primary
- Secondary
- +5
levels :
Kindergarten
Primary
Secondary
Preparatory
Adult Education
Technical Secondary School
Masters
Doctorate
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
I am extremely passionate, dedicated, and enthusiastic about developing literacy skills in learners of all ages. I am trained in teaching approaches that are recommended for general education students, students with reading and spelling weaknesses, and students with dyslexia and dysgraphia. My lessons are personalized to the students I work with, but in general follow this sequence for reading decoding and spelling lessons:
1.) Phonological Awareness Warm-up: Listen for sounds, manipulate sounds, identify sounds in words
2.) Review Previous Lesson: Re-reading familiar texts, phrases, word lists, or dictation of previously learned words and phrases
3.) Introduce New Concept: Explicit, direct teaching of a phonics skill or rule
4.) Guided Practice and Extended Practice with individual words and word lists: Blending words, reading pattern-based words, phoneme-grapheme mapping, word sorts (sound sort or spelling sort, word building with grapheme tiles, word chains, word families, cloze tasks, timed reading of learned words, read in phrases, choral reading
5.) Guided Practice and Extended Practice with Connected Text: Reading phrases and sentences, building reading fluency with paragraphs and passages
6.) Dictation Practice: Sounds, words, phrases, and sentences.
7.) Reading of Texts: Decodable sentences, decodable texts, highlight target words.
I follow this lesson sequence for reading comprehension:
1.) Build and elicit prior knowledge
2.) Set a Purpose for Reading
3.) Pre-Teach Vocabulary: pronounce, write, and read vocabulary, build student friendly definition, give examples and non-examples, ask yes/no questions help students to use the word
4.) Introduce the Text, Help Student to Make Predictions
5.) During Reading Text Dependent Questions to Encourage Active Processing of Text: Retell or summarize an important section, update or make a new prediction, answer inferential questions, analyze a challenging sentence or paragraph, check comprehension monitoring, discuss visualization
6.) Use Text structure: Graphic Organizers, guided notes/ sticky notes
7.) After Reading: Focus for repeated readings: Revisit vocabulary to look for multiple meanings, sort related words into categories, write student definitions, delineate synonyms and antonyms, semantic feature analysis, shades of meaning, comparative/ superlative adjectives, four squares, select and connect
8.) Students Show their Knowledge: Graphic organizers, writing, retell / summarize, answer questions, teach the teacher.
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
Knowledgeable tutor with great ideas
Amanda has had a significant impact on my daughter for the past several months that they have been working together. She really seems to understand and get to the core of the issue or "learning block" and has different ways to approach learning each concept. She is also very good at articulating her process to my wife and I. It also helps that my daughter looks forward to her sessions since Amanda is so nice and approachable.A Gem of Excellence: Kind, effective, insightful
Amanda is an exceptional tutor who has made a lasting impact on my fifth-grade student! From the moment we started, it was evident that we had found a gem in the world of tutors. Our student's progress with Amanda has been nothing short of extraordinary. Amanda brings a kind-hearted approach, insightful teaching methods, and genuine encouragement. What truly sets Amanda apart is her ability to tailor her lessons to meet our student's needs, but also her innate understanding of how to make complex concepts accessible and engaging, ensuring that each session is not only educational but also enjoyable. She sends detailed reports that give an incredible amount of insights on my student's strengths and areas of opportunity - I've gotten more insights on my child from Amanda than I have from any classroom teacher EVER. The progress my child has made under Amanda's guidance is a testament to her dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment to inspire a passion for lifelong learning. I cannot recommend Amanda highly enough. Amanda's exceptional skills as an educator, coupled with her kindness, insightfulness, and dedication, have made a profound impact on my child's educational journey. To any parent seeking a tutor who goes above and beyond, look no further than Amanda - just don't take our time slots!View more recommendations
Rates
Rate
- 220AED
Pack prices
- 5h: 1,102AED
- 10h: 2,204AED
Travel
- + 5AED
free lessons
The first free lesson with Amanda will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
online
- 220AED/h
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