Tutor profile: Connie H.

I need to find peer reviewed articles for my biology class, where is the best place to find them?

Use your school’s and/ or libraries online databases. There is always an option in an advanced search to only include peer-reviewed article and resources.

My students have has little to no exposure to reading and letters, how can I catch them up to their classmates?

Deliberately focus your class on literacy skills, everything from how to physically handle books to nursery rhymes. Every word you share practice repeating the sounds and how they blend together, and when they sound similarly as with rhyming.

How do you support student who have holes in their literacy abilities?

Assess each student in the core competencies: phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Determine which competencies are lacking and focus your teaching on these areas as you continue to support all of the competencies as a whole.