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Building Confidence In Struggling Readers
Private Online Literacy Tutoring
Watch your child's reading skills soar with online 1:1 literacy tutoring, tailored to your child’s learning needs!
Awarded best Tutoring Service by the Toronto Star
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Students Helped
Did a teacher notice that your child is struggling with reading in the classroom?
Is your child’s confidence being impacted by their low literacy levels?
Do you feel your child needs some extra help with reading?
Does your child thrive when the learning is tailored to their individual interests?
Have you tried other tutoring programs that just don’t work for your child?
If you respond yes to any of these questions, our reading tutors can help your child gain confidence quickly.
How we Help Your Child
Novel Tutoring has provided hundreds of struggling readers the support they might not find within the classroom. See how we can help your child become a confident reader.
Literacy Experts
Our reading tutors are experienced educators who are trained in Structured Literacy and the Science of Reading. We will match your child with a tutor who will provide undivided attention working through engaging exercises based on your child’s interests.
Assessment
Your tutor will start with a thorough assessment of your child’s reading abilities and preferred learning style. Based on the outcome, they will develop a customized learning plan for your child including multi-sensory activities that help process learnings.
Intensive Learning
Your child will work with our tutor online in two or more virtual 1:1 sessions per week. Sessions are 30 to 60 minutes each, depending on your child’s needs. Throughout the program, you will receive a weekly progress report from our tutor via email.
The Novel approach connects Orton-Gillingham and the Science of Reading with your child’s unique learning needs.
Our Approach takes the guesswork out of reading, targeting all aspects of litercy skill development including phonics, phonemic awareness, spelling, writing, reading comprehension, and fluency.
Over the past 7 years, our tutors have delivered consistent, measurable progress for students from the ages of 6 to 14 years.
The Novel Approach to Tutoring
Multi-sensory strategies
We offer students multi-sensory tools and strategies that help them process language using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile learning pathways, simultaneously. Students process learnings more effectively can retain concepts long-term.
Direct and explicit instruction
Orton-Gillingham has identified hundreds of patterns and consistencies in English, turning language into a math and science. We use direct and explicit instruction to teach these patterns and consistencies to our learners, and takes the guesswork out of learning how to read.
Child-centered learning
All our tutoring programs are tailored to each student’s specific learning needs. Our initial Orton-Gillingham based assessment identifies literacy gaps and leads to a customized learning plan that incorporates a student’s likes and interests as much as possible.
Basic to complex
After we know the foundational literacy gaps that the student is struggling with, our phonics tutors move from basic to complex material. We make sure that each learner is successful as they tackle new challenges so that they gain confidence in their ability to read and write.
How Tutoring With Novel Works
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Book A Free Consultation
Find out if your child needs tutoring, how often you should have lessons, and how long it will take to see results in a free consultation with one of our literacy experts.
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Literacy Assessment
Our tutoring journey starts with a comprehensive literacy assessment that is the basis of a tailored learning plan for your child with the right curriculum and tutor.
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Customized Teaching Plan
Our tutors are available 7 days a week for online lessons before school, in the afternoon, or at night. We will find a time that meets your family’s needs.
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Weekly Lesson Reports
Our tutors keep you up to speed on your child’s development with comprehensive lesson and progress reports every week.
Finding Joy in Reading and the Love of Learning.
Struggling with reading can be a confusing and frustrating experience for children. It impacts their confidence, and often leads to a reluctance to participate in class.
Our expert literacy tutors provide the guidance and tools that your child needs to overcome these hurdles, building their confidence and a foundation for lifelong learning.
Our founders Robyn and Martha understand these challenges intimately, as they have struggled to focus and read in the classroom themselves. At Novel Tutoring, they have created the learning environment that they wished to have in the past.
The Novel approach is multi-sensory, evidence-based and personalized for the unique learning needs of every child, teaching reading, writing and spelling skills.
Hear from our Families
Meet our Literacy Tutors
Our tutors are literacy experts with extensive backgrounds in remedial education and are all trained in the methodologies of Orton-Gillingham and Structured Literacy. They are equipped to address individual reading challenges, building a personalized learning plan for each student. Meet the passionate educators dedicated to your child's reading success.
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Ready to end your child’s reading struggles?
Take the first step towards getting your child the help that works for them. Set up a free phone consultation to learn more about our lessons and pricing.
FAQ
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We start with a brief (and free of charge) introductory call with you as a parent to understand your situation and suggest the right tutoring approach.
If you decide to move forward with Novel tutoring, we will match your child with one of our tutors based on their individual needs and learning style.
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Tutors start by conducting an Orton-Gillingham-based assessment to evaluate your child’s specific literacy levels and remedial needs.
Through the assessment, we also learn about your child’s interest and what makes them passionate about learning.
We then create a customized plan of action that meets the learning needs of your child.
Our tutors work with your child in 1:1 tutoring sessions twice a week to implement the learning plan.
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Virtual tutoring sessions are available for students anywhere in Canada and the United States.
Following the Orton-Gillingham Approach, Novel tutors teach your child all the important mechanics of reading, writing and spelling.
A tutoring session is 30 minutes and takes a student through a structured basic to complex lesson plan. Students are introduced to the learning objectives and multi-sensory strategies are deployed to support effective processing and long-term retention of the concept. Our tutors build active learning components into each lesson and make sure to accommodate the different learning styles of our students.
Novel has sourced various online tools and resources that align with the Orton-Gillingham approach and help make each lesson fun and interactive.
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Expect a minimum of two 30-minute tutoring sessions per week. We offer sessions in the morning before school and in the afternoon after school from Monday and Friday.
Once you have set a schedule with your tutor, you can expect for it to stay consistent over time.
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The length of your child’s tutoring journey depends on their specific learning stage and needs.
The Novel Curriculum covers a period of 2+ years, but we support students as long as it’s needed to feel confident in the classroom and beyond.
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We charge an hourly rate for tutoring sessions depending on the type of tutoring your child needs. Please set up a free consultation call to learn more about our pricing.
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We do offer in-person tutoring, however availability is geographically limited to families located in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada. Please contact us to inquire if in-person tutoring is available for you.