Students who have improved their reading through phonological awareness, multisensory decoding and spelling instruction continue with tutoring to learn language comprehension: background and vocabulary knowledge, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge. This results in skilled readers who demonstrate fluent execution and text comprehension. The next step is writing instruction including explicit teaching and practicing the six traits of effective writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and voice. This expands into paragraph writing in many styles.

 

Students who attend private schools continue tutoring for support in meeting the challenging learning goals of the independent schools.  Elite athletes have coaches and trainers; the academic realm is no different. An example would be to read the following short stories and address the guiding question:  In what ways do Jack London's "To Build a Fire" and Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" represent the genre known as American literary naturalism?