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Our Decoding Tutors Travel To Your NYC Metro Area Home! Expert In-Person 1:1 Decoding Tutoring | Free Consultations and Meet & Greets with our professionals.
Our Decoding Tutors Travel To Your NYC Metro Area Home! Expert In-Person 1:1 Decoding Tutoring | Free Consultations and Meet & Greets with our professionals.
Brooklyn Letters owns and operates four Letters websites, providing the best tutoring services across the Tri-State area. We travel to you in Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Yonkers, Long Island, Connecticut (CT), Westchester, and New Jersey (NJ) for offering
private pay literacy and math tutoring for school-aged students. Families seeking structured home-based academic support for younger learners can also explore our Homeschool Tutors for K-5 Students in the NYC Area.
Literacy Specialists
We travel to you and we also offer remote services. Families seeking flexible virtual support can explore our remote literacy tutoring services.
Our Literacy Specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. If you’re looking for comprehensive literacy support, explore our NYC Reading & Writing Tutor services.
We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
- Wilson/Fundations
- Orton Gillingham
- Reading Comprehension
- Decoding & Encoding
- Spelling
- Reading Fluency
Literacy Specialists
We travel to you and we also offer remote services. Families seeking flexible virtual support can explore our remote literacy tutoring services.
Our Literacy Specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. If you’re looking for comprehensive literacy support, explore our NYC Reading & Writing Tutor services.
We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
- In-person Evaluations
- Remote Evaluations
- Writing
- Handwriting
- ELA Tutoring
- ISEE Tutoring
- Orton Gillingham
- Wilson/Fundations
- Reading Comprehension
- Decoding & Encoding
- Spelling
- Reading Fluency
Brooklyn Letters Launches Must-Have NYC Dyslexia Guide for Parents
A practical NYC-focused handbook to help parents recognize dyslexia, pursue the right evaluations, and secure essential school supports. Read more here: https://brooklynletters.com/understanding-dyslexia-in-nyc-guide.
Families seeking flexible, specialized support can also explore remote dyslexia tutoring services.
Key features of Understanding Dyslexia in NYC include:
- Comprehensive Sign Recognition: Learn how dyslexia can present in preschoolers, children, and teens—so families can identify concerns earlier and take action sooner.
- Decoding Educational Acronyms: Understand the key differences between IEPs, private evaluations, and school-based supports, and learn how each pathway can affect services.
- NYC-Specific Policies: Get a clear overview of New York City’s dyslexia screening policies and available supports within the DOE.
- Curated Local Resources: Explore a carefully vetted list of trusted NYC-based neuropsychologists, tutors, and schools with dyslexia expertise.
- Actionable Next Steps: Find practical guidance on referrals, structured literacy programs, and how to navigate public and private options, including insights into insurance reimbursement.
Whether your family is working with the Department of Education, exploring private intervention, or seeking clarity on insurance coverage, this handbook offers step-by-step direction to help you move forward with confidence. Understanding Dyslexia in NYC is now available for purchase on Kindle Edition at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/
About the Author: Craig Selinger is the founder of Brooklyn Letters, a private practice dedicated to providing high-quality speech and language therapy and literacy services. With years of experience supporting children and families in New York City, Craig advocates for early identification and effective, research-informed supports for learners with reading differences.
About Brooklyn Letters: Brooklyn Letters is a leading provider of speech, language, and literacy services in New York City, committed to helping children and adults reach their full communication potential. The experienced professionals we work with provide personalized evaluations and services tailored to individual needs.
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Take the next step in supporting your child’s literacy journey. Grab your copy of Understanding Dyslexia in NYC: Navigating NYC’s School System: A Dyslexia Handbook and gain practical tools to navigate evaluations, school supports, and evidence-based intervention options with confidence. Empower your advocacy and help your child access the support they deserve.
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Brooklyn Letters Launches Must-Have NYC Dyslexia Guide for Parents
A practical NYC-focused handbook to help parents spot dyslexia, get evaluations, and secure vital school supports. Read more here: https://brooklynletters.com/understanding-dyslexia-in-nyc-guide.
Key features of Understanding Dyslexia in NYC include:
- Comprehensive Sign Recognition: Learn how dyslexia presents in preschoolers, children, and teens, enabling earlier identification and intervention.
- Decoding Educational Acronyms: Understand the crucial differences between IEPs, private evaluations, and various school-based supports.
- NYC-Specific Policies: Gain an overview of New York City’s dyslexia screening policies and available services within the DOE.
- Curated Local Resources: Explore a carefully vetted list of trusted NYC-based neuropsychologists, tutors, and schools specializing in dyslexia.
- Actionable Next Steps: Find practical guidance on referrals, structured literacy programs, and how to navigate both public and private educational options, including insights into insurance reimbursement.
Whether families are engaging with the Department of Education, exploring private intervention options, or seeking clarity on insurance coverage, this handbook serves as an indispensable tool, empowering them to take proactive steps for their child’s success. Understanding Dyslexia in NYC is now available for purchase on Kindle Edition at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/
About the Author: Craig Selinger is the founder of Brooklyn Letters, a private practice dedicated to providing high-quality speech and language therapy and literacy services. With years of experience working with children and families in New York City, Craig is a passionate advocate for early intervention and effective support for children with learning differences.
About Brooklyn Letters: Brooklyn Letters is a leading provider of speech, language, and literacy services in New York City, committed to helping children and adults achieve their full communication potential. The experienced professionals we work with offer personalized evaluations and therapy tailored to individual needs.
Contact
Take the first step toward supporting your child’s literacy journey today! Grab your copy of Understanding Dyslexia in NYC: Navigating NYC’s School System: A Dyslexia Handbook and arm yourself with the essential tools and knowledge to navigate NYC’s education system with confidence. Empower your advocacy and give your child the support they deserve!
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
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Decoding and encoding are essential parts of early literacy development for children across the NYC metro area, including Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island, the Bronx, New Jersey, Connecticut, Westchester, Philadelphia, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Hamptons. Decoding means translating printed words into sounds to support reading. Encoding is the reverse—using sounds to build and write words. At Brooklyn Letters, independent providers support neurodivergent learners, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other learning differences and learning disabilities who may struggle with these foundational skills. Through multisensory, diagnostic-prescriptive instruction, educational specialists tailor lessons to each child’s learning profile and strengthen reading and writing habits.
To read and write, students first build phonological awareness—understanding that words are made of smaller sounds (phonemes). Phonological awareness helps children segment words into sounds and blend sounds to form words. When children learn to read, they start by connecting letters with their corresponding sounds. Learn what is phonology. Discover the importance of phonological processing in learning to read and write.
To master sound-symbol association, children must understand the relationship between letters and sounds. They need to connect what they see (letters) to what they hear (sounds) for decoding/reading, and connect what they hear to what they write for encoding/spelling. These two directions work together to build efficient reading and writing.
People with dyslexia may have difficulty decoding words, recognizing letter-sound relationships, and building automatic word-reading skills. Read this article to learn more about dyslexia, how to recognize the signs, understand the impact, explore supports and accommodations, pursue diagnosis, and take helpful next steps.
Learn how early literacy benefits from both print-to-speech and speech-to-print instruction, building brain-based connections that link alphabet knowledge to spoken language.
The Five Pillars of Reading highlights phonemic awareness and phonics as critical foundations for early literacy. Learn what is structured literacy.
Check out these resources for teachers and caregivers—courtesy of Dr. Miles of Brooklyn College, CUNY. It includes Reading Ready (a word reading curriculum for educators and manual for parents/caregivers), activities for Phonemic Awareness, High-Frequency Word Activities (400+ words), and Grapheme-Phoneme Mapping Exercises (phonics and spelling through phoneme-grapheme mapping).
Learn the scope and sequence at-a-glance: all concepts (K-2) and the 6 types of syllables found in English orthography, why syllable instruction matters, and the typical sequence in which students learn about spoken and written syllables.
Read about Literacy Milestones.
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made of smaller units of sound called phonemes. It reflects a child’s ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken words—think of it as the ears-to-brain connection.
Phonemic awareness can be taught before children can read or recognize printed letters. Babies begin processing speech sounds as caregivers speak and sing. In English, phonemic awareness includes recognizing and working with approximately 44 phonemes. Teaching letter sounds alongside letter names can also help students connect sounds to print over time.
Phonics
Phonics builds on phonemic awareness by teaching that letters (graphemes) represent sounds (phonemes)—think of it as the ears, eyes, and brain working together. A child with strong phonics skills can “crack the code” by sounding out unfamiliar words and listening for accuracy.
Effective phonics instruction focuses on clear, systematic relationships between sounds and printed letters or letter combinations. Students learn the letter-sound correspondences and use them to read and spell words with increasing independence.
Importance of Symbol Imagery in Reading and Spelling
Sensory-cognitive skills such as phonemic awareness and symbol imagery help children build stronger reading and spelling skills. Phonemic awareness supports reading and spelling by helping students hear and work with sounds in words. However, English is not always perfectly phonetic, which is why many children struggle with recognizing sight words or words that are not spelled exactly how they sound. That is where symbol imagery comes in.
Symbol imagery involves both phonological and orthographic processing—the ability to notice and remember visual patterns in words. It is a person’s ability to visualize letters and word patterns, which supports faster recognition of familiar words. This is important because reading fluency depends heavily on automatic word recognition and meaningful context..
Students with strong symbol imagery can handle new or unfamiliar words more efficiently, recognize letters and common words quickly, and self-correct errors. At Brooklyn Letters, strengthening symbol imagery is one of the functions we focus on to help your child become a fluent reader and skilled speller.
At Brooklyn Letters, the reading specialists we work with provide Orton-Gillingham and Wilson tutoring services to help your child master the underlying principles of phonological awareness and symbol imagery needed to become a skilled reader. We offer doorstep or at-home and online tutoring. Click here to get to know the literacy specialists we work with and find out more about reading fluency tutoring services.
Peter W.
Special Educator And Childhood Literacy Specialist, Pre-K 4th Grade, MS, PhD
Erica
Bachelor of Science in Childhood and Special Education (Grades 1-6) and MSEd in Behavioral Disorders
Isabel F.
M.S. Education for General
& Special Education,
NYS Certified Educator of
Childhood General & Special Education
Clint K.
Master’s in General
and Special Education
Alexa S.
Masters in Elementary Education;
Orton Gillingham Trained and Experienced
Kaitlyn
Bachelor’s degree
in Childhood Education
(Grades 1-6), Master’s Degree
in Special Education
(Grade 1- Grade 6)
Brian
MAT in Early Childhood Education,
Certificate in Childhood Education (Grades 1-6)
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You’re Not Alone—We’ll Guide You Through Every Step
Parents often feel unsure about whether their child’s literacy challenges are typical or indicators of deeper decoding or spelling difficulties. Our literacy specialists will walk you through the entire assessment process—from reviewing prior evaluations to creating targeted, research-backed literacy goals. We make the process clear, supportive, and stress-free so you know exactly what your child needs next.
