Struggling Readers Need Mental Frameworks

Unfortunately, struggling learners lack frameworks that they can use to organize and understand information. This deficiency hinders their ability to navigate difficult material and limits their learning and understanding. Because visible problems are much easier to dissect, diagnose and solve, our tutors will improve students’ ability to bring learning problems to a state of visibility by integrating metacognitive skills, and text structures/features within their tutoring session to help students understand academic content.

How Are We Different?

We Focus on Reading, Writing, Academic Content Learning

Our intent is to teach students to read and write better and to use reading and writing as aids to learning academic content. Accordingly, initially, we teach students a reading intervention strategy to accelerate their reading competence; then we integrate learning tools into academic content learning.

First Stage: Improving Reading Competence

All students will learn to use Reciprocal Teaching strategies to construct meaning from text and from mathematical symbols using the format of a learning dialogue among the tutor and a small group of students.