High-Impact Tutoring Effects

How do you save a child’s life?

At the start of first grade, Gabe’s reading assessment revealed he could only read six words per minute. In his reading class, whenever the teacher called on him to read out loud, his heart sank. With sweaty palms, Gabe clutched his reading book, aware of the impatient sighs around him. Some students looked mournfully at the clock and others raised their hands to take over. Gabe’s face felt hot as he labored to sound out the words on the page. He started and stumbled over each word. His teacher fed him the correct words followed by Gabe echoing her.

Three months later, a reading assessment graded Gabe at 64 words per minute. With newfound confidence, Gabe demonstrated amazing skill growth in reading comprehension, phonics, spelling, vocabulary and grammar. All after only three months. What made the difference?

Gabe was saved from a bleak future of struggling that would have been the bane of his academic performance throughout all 12 years of school. He was saved from the torture of not understanding the science, history and math terms he would encounter in later years. Had he not improved, he might have been one of the 23% of students who fail or drop out of high school.

He might have encountered difficulty with reading instructions, job applications, and information related to his health and safety.

So how was Gabe saved? He learned to read with extra help from high-impact tutoring.

With consistency and the extra time provided to him, he was able to learn step-by-step how to use phonology and morphology to decode and spell words, construct sentences, and express himself through writing.

Gabe’s story is not uncommon. As a nation, we’re sailing into a storm with today’s students in grave danger of not knowing how to read proficiently. Without learning to read well, people lack the ability to think critically about words in print. They become sitting ducks for misinformation, propaganda, and being taken advantage of. Without reading well, people turn to televised media for information, which may or may not be correct. Like holding onto life preservers, they become dependent on others to tell them what they need to know, despite many of their sources not knowing either.

If you have a child or someone you know has a child who is struggling with reading, contact me.

Together we can trim our sails and avoid the storm.