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Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters

DECODING TUTORING

Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters

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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 Staff.

Our Decoding Tutors Travel To Your NYC Metro Area Home! Expert In-Person 1:1 Decoding Tutoring | Free Consultations and Meet & Greets with Our Staff.
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Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
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Kate is a fantastic therapist and teacher and I highly recommend her services.
Kate worked with my 7-year-old son for a period of about 6 months, helping him not only with speech therapy but also with phonics and writing. During his time with Kate, he improved his speech annunciation, gained confidence and endurance in writing, and improved his skills in phonics. She always walked in with a huge smile on her face and brought an amazing energy to their session. Kate did a great job guiding a child who doesn’t like to sit still through an hour-long lesson, always ending with a game or a fun activity. My little guy looked forward to his time spent with Kate and never complained that she was coming, which is a huge help to a parent. She was always punctual and super professional.

- Jennifer, mother of Joseph

She’s absolutely wonderful and we are grateful to have found her!
Miss Shelley has changed our son’s life in a way we never thought possible. She is patient and kind, but most of all, effective. Our seven-year-old has been working with Miss Shelley for almost a year. During that time, our son has gone from below average to exceeding expectations. He’s more confident and fluid in his reading and writing and continues to make excellent progress. Most importantly, Miss Shelley deals extremely well with our son’s periodic lack of focus. She manages to bring him “back” to the table with her techniques and patience. I would urge any parent whose child struggles with reading to jump on the opportunity to work with her. Miss Shelley appears to use just the right mix of tools in her lessons. Repeating the basics, introducing new concepts, some games to keep things interesting, and finally, some reading and writing. We are truly grateful for Miss Shelley and continue to look forward to working with her in the future.

-Vassiliki

We were happy with Michelle’s services. Alara had a good year overall – her organizational skills improved and she showed nice progress in reading and writing. Michelle and her teachers were a key part in helping to make this happen, so much appreciated. Michelle worked very well with Alara and we appreciate it!

-Mark S.

Daria has been wonderful! Our daughter really enjoys working with her and has been making good progress.

- Brienna, mom of a 7 year old

Cassie is a Lifesaver. We were looking for a tutor to help our son when he was falling behind in school. We were lucky enough to find Cassie. Upon meeting my son, Cassie immediately understood his needs and focused on those areas that school was unable to provide for him. She was kind, compassionate, professional, and always knew just what to do to keep my son engaged and excited to learn. Cassie was also able to provide my husband and me with the tools we needed to further support our son. We are truly indebted to Cassie for teaching our son the skills he needs to continue to grow academically.

- Julie

I am delighted to report that we were immensely pleased with Alyssa. She was so helpful with Jane and helped what was a very difficult year to make it so much more pleasant. She is very skilled at tutoring and made it a joy for Jane, even at the end of a long day that was part of a long year.

- Laura
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Decoding involves translating printed words to sounds or reading, and encoding is just the opposite: using individual sounds to build and write words.

In order to read and write, we must first become phonologically aware by acquiring the ability to understand that words are built from smaller sounds or phonemes. This phonological awareness allows us to segment words into smaller sounds and, conversely, to build entire words from smaller sounds. When we learn to read, we start by making associations between each letter and its corresponding sound. Learn what is phonology. Discover the importance of phonological processing in learning to read and write.

To master sound-symbol association, children must understand that there is a correspondence between letters and sounds. They must understand the visual to the auditory relationship between letters and sounds (decoding/reading) as well as the auditory to a visual relationship (encoding/writing) in order to read and write efficiently.

People with dyslexia may have difficulty decoding words, recognizing letter-sound relationships, and mastering fundamental reading skills. Read this article to learn more about dyslexia, recognize the signs, impact, support, and accommodations, how to identify the indicators, and get a diagnosis, post-diagnosis steps, approaches, assistance, how to boost self-worth, and many more!

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Learn how early literacy benefits from both print-to-speech and speech-to-print instruction, creating connections in the brain that link new knowledge about the alphabet to what children already know and are continuously learning about words.

The Five Pillars of Reading stresses the importance of phonemic awareness and phonics in building the foundations of literacy in young learners. 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 (highly engaging activities to support phonemic awareness), High-Frequency Word Activities (featuring 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 it’s important to teach syllables, and the sequence in which students learn about spoken and written syllables.

Read about Literacy Milestones.

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness refers to the knowledge and understanding that words are built from and can be broken apart into smaller segments of a sound called phonemes. Phonemic awareness is one’s ability to hear, recognize, and manipulate sounds heard in words- think of it as the ears to brain connection. 

Phonemic awareness can be taught even before a child learns to read or identify printed letters. When babies are born, they are processing phonemes when parents speak and sing to their bundle of joy. In the English language, phonemic awareness means being able to identify its approximately 44 phonemes. Additionally, teaching letter sounds with letter names is an effective way for students to grasp the concept of phonemes.

Phonics

Whereas phonemic awareness refers to one’s ability to recognize sounds or phonemes in words, phonics mastery means understanding that letters (graphemes or printed letters) of the alphabet represent sounds (phonemes)- think of it as the ears, eyes, and brain connection. A child who has mastered phonics can sound out new or unfamiliar words on their own. The child is “cracking the code” and is receiving feedback by listening to oneself sound out words. 

Teaching phonics is all about establishing the relationship between sounds and printed letters or printed letter combinations. Starting with the printed letter-sound correspondence, a child then learns how to match sounds to letters and uses this relationship to understand printed words.

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Importance of Symbol Imagery in Reading and Spelling

Sensory-cognitive skills such as phonemic awareness and symbol imagery are key in developing a child’s reading and spelling skillsPhonemic awareness refers to one’s ability to process sounds in a word, which helps a child read and spell by sounding outHowever, the English language is not always phonetic, which is why many children have difficulties recognizing sight words and words that are not spelled according to their letter sounds. That is where symbol imagery comes in.

Symbol imagery involves both phonological and orthographic processing or the visual patterns of wordsIt refers to an individual’s ability to visualize letters and identify word patterns with their mind’s eye, allowing them to instantly recognize sight words because they have developed an extensive knowledge of themThis is crucial as reading fluency relies primarily on mastery of sight words and contextual information.

Students with strong symbol imagery show no difficulties even when encountering new or unfamiliar words, can recognize letters or common words quickly, and can self-correct their errorsAt Brooklyn Letters, symbol imagery is one of the functions that we want to help strengthen in your child in order for them to become fluent readers and skilled spellers.

At Brooklyn Letters, our reading specialists provide Orton-Gillingham and Wilson tutoring services to help your child master the underlying principles of phonological awareness and symbol imagery that they need in order to become skilled readers. We offer doorstep or at-home and online tutoring. Click here to get to know our literacy specialists and find out more about reading fluency tutoring services.

MEET OUR BROOKLYN LITERACY SPECIALISTS WHO TRAVEL TO YOUR HOME
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Peter W.
Special Educator And Childhood Literacy Specialist, Pre-K 4th Grade, MS, PhD
Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters
Erica
Bachelor of Science in Childhood and Special Education (Grades 1-6) and MSEd in Behavioral Disorders
Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters
Isabel F.
M.S. Education for General
& Special Education,
NYS Certified Educator of
Childhood General & Special Education
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Clint K.
Master’s in General
and Special Education
Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters
Alexa S.
Masters in Elementary Education;
Orton Gillingham Trained and Experienced
Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters
Daria
Master’s Degree in Early Childhood and Special Education
Decoding Tutoring, Brooklyn Letters
Kaitlyn
Bachelor’s degree
in Childhood Education
(Grades 1-6), Master’s Degree
in Special Education
(Grade 1- Grade 6)
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Brian
MAT in Early Childhood Education,
Certificate in Childhood Education (Grades 1-6)

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FREE CONSULTATION!!!
Call: (347) 394-3485,
Text: (917) 426-8880

Email: [email protected]
(we respond to email right away!)