Riverdale Tutor

Writing and reading private tutoring also available throughout the summer.
Contact me at: 647-271-8397 or [email protected]

Are Classroom Reading Groups the Best Way to Teach Reading? Maybe Not. Read more.

I plan on sourcing some of these books and am hoping to find some great books to share with my budding readers.

The 48 best chapter books for kids (that you probably haven't heard of) To raise a lifelong reader, your child needs to see that reading can be fun. Otherwise, they won't choose to read. Here are the best chapter books your child will devour. 100% kid approved!

Many books are full of tricky words that make it hard for beginner readers to gain confidence.
If your child feels behind others and can decode at a grade 1 level, these are great series to build confidence. If your student is a little behind and needs help reaching grade level, please reach out to me.
Dog on a Log series by Pamela Brooke
Cignem Knebel decodeable chapter books.
Many are found here:

Simple Words Books | Best Decodable Books for Struggling Readers Fun "big-kid" books for struggling readers, early readers and kids with dyslexia. Dyslexic children love our books with low vocabulary - high interest engaging stories. We even have a book series with dyslexic characters.

Finding books for boys to read after they graduate from my early reading program has been a challenge.

Yesterday I went in to a bookstore and was able to really dig through the book shelves. The following books will have many decodeable words, but there are still a few tricky words that may require support.
If your child isn’t independently reading feel free to contact me so that I can start them off on their reading journey.
Reading progress moves so much faster over the summer months!

For Girls I recommend Princess in Black, Ivy and Bean.
The Magic Tree House is another excellent adventure series with a brother and sister who travel through time to locations all over the world.

This is exactly why I love teaching struggling readers how to read. The lifetime struggles and shame he lived with for so long are crushing to many.
The compensatory skills that this man mentions are mind blowing. He couldn’t read, but his parents were correct when they said he was bright.

‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ John Corcoran graduated from university and became a teacher for 17 years - but he had an extraordinary secret.

For early readers and spellers, finding an association between letter names and sounds can be difficult. To practice while on the go running errands or driving, you can play an alphabet scavenger hunt. Find a word that starts with the T. Tree! Tire. Tummy.

Sharing these tips for helping kids with anxiety. Kids are going through a lot right now, and may have even more adjustments in the Fall.

When Anxiety Doesn't Look Like Anxiety - How to Recognise and Manage Behaviour When Anxiety is the Fuel - When the world feels frightening or fragile, kids and teens might respond in ways that fall a decent way short of adorable. They might yell or hit, try to control you, refuse you, push away, push back, or just push. If their behaviour is fuelled by anxiety, it has nothing to do with ‘bad behaviour...