Reading Tutoring
The ability to read and comprehend text at a high level is critical for success in today's Age of Information. Reading is important for students because it helps to develop their minds and facilitates the development of writing, language, and even listening skills. Strong reading abilities can improve achievement and success in college and beyond. The ability to read and comprehend effectively can have a positively profound impact on a student's success and earnings throughout their career.
Studies conducted by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University show that for children having trouble learning to read in kindergarten, 88% still had trouble in third grade1. In fact, low achievement as early as fourth grade was shown to be a powerful predictor of high school and college graduation rates, as well as lifetime earnings2.
At Five Points Learning, we provide personalized reading programs that emphasize fluency, speed, vocabulary, comprehension and confidence. We focus on developing the critical reading skills students will need to become successful readers, inside the classroom and beyond.
Elementary School:
Visual memory and perception are the basic skills necessary for fluency, efficient reading and improved spelling. Our elementary level reading programs build on those fundamentals as well as phonics, decoding, word recognition, vocabulary, and literal comprehension.
Middle School:
As material becomes increasingly complex in areas like social studies, the sciences, and language arts, comprehension abilities can play a large role in determining a student's success. Our middle school students enhance their reading skills by focusing on improving their attention, word recognition, vocabulary, reading rates, silent reading fluency and comprehension.
High School:
Strong reading skills are a must as the volume of required reading in all subjects has substantially increased from previous years. Students must be able to comprehend and make sense of large amounts of information quickly. At this level we focus on implementing critical reading strategies and improving reading rates, vocabulary, and comprehension of complex materials.
We offer a variety of packages including:
- Small Group Tutoring
- Private Tutoring
1 National Scientific Council, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2007). The Science of Early Childhood Development: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do. Cambridge, MA.
2 McKinsey & Company (April 2009). The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s schools. Washington, D.C.
