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Building enthusiasm for reading

We know you want to build your child’s confidence and enthusiasm for reading. 3rd grade is a great time to turn reading frustration into triumph … or to provide advanced help to move your 3rd grader ahead. Using your child’s personal learning plan as a guide, our 3rd grade reading tutors will weave the building blocks of reading — vocabulary, phonics and word patterns — into fun lessons. With our great teaching, cool technology and motivational rewards, you’ll see bigger smiles and better results in no time.

With our 3rd grade reading tutoring, your child will learn key reading concepts and skills such as:

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

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Phonics

  • Identify letters of the alphabet
  • Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (i.e., block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (i.e., join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (i.e., car, bear, pier)
  • Break a word down into syllables, or use syllabication
  • Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (i.e., books, started, singing, gladly)
  • Identify compound words

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Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

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Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child's unique reading needs …

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Reading tutoring by grade levels

Our reading programs offer instruction in common topics like phonics and reading comprehension to help your student gain confidence in reading. (Watch them succeed in all subject areas!)

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Our parents and students who love their results:

“I love that everyone is so friendly and helpful! I love that our son is learning and having fun while doing so! Learning should be fun! I want our son to not only learn, but have a passion for learning! Thanks for helping keep that passion for learning going!”

Janelle B.

Start your child on the path to academic success today

Give us a call at (888) 338-2283 or fill out the form to discuss your child’s learning goals and schedule our Insight™ Assessment to accurately determine where your child stands academically.

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