Do you have
a struggling reader?
Are you looking for SSAT test prep?
Do you want to enhance your learner's literacy?
Hello
My name is Susan Dryer.
MLIS, MA, BA with 30 years of classroom, tutoring, and substitute experience, K-12.
I provide explicit and systematic reading instruction to struggling readers with or without a dyslexia diagnosis. Many need to fill in the gaps from COVID.
I work with students over a 3 month to 2 year period to prepare for the SSAT- elementary, middle, and upper-level tests required by private schools. I explicitly teach what is necessary to score well on the verbal and reading sections, especially analogies, and devote practice time to proven test-taking strategies.
I offer enrichment and acceleration from a Humanities perspective in English Language Arts. Tutoring is based on the needs of the individual student and may present curriculum content with more depth, breadth, complexity, or abstractness, or present content earlier or at a faster pace. Such tutoring advances homeschooling or enriches what is offered in the regular classroom.
Is a tutor the right move for me? Closing the gap between a struggling reader and his or her peers is important. A tutor can slow down the delivery of the content being taught, repeat the content, and present it in different ways. Often students need holes to be filled in. A tutor’s support is targeted. Time is not wasted on what the student already clearly knows. Some students advance slower than their peers without appropriate intervention. For parents, resistance to the idea of tutoring is to avoid a label, and the cost. For students, it can feel like punishment unless addressed properly. Use the argument that elite athletes have coaches and trainers helping them improve. Ask how much easier would their lives be if they felt more comfortable with reading.
testimonials
