Assessing Your Child’s Needs

Before we can design a tutoring program for your child, we need to know where he or she stands academically. We use nationally normed assessment instruments to pre- and post-test to evaluate the student’s initial knowledge and to measure reading improvement.

Based on assessment results, a customized instructional plan is written. Then a tutor is selected based on the student’s educational needs, personality, interests, and age. When the student is nearing the end of the reading program, he is post-tested to verify the increased percentage of improvement in targeted areas.

Our assessment factors may include the following:

• Phonological awareness
• Phonics
• Phonological processing speed
• Word identification
• Word attack skills
• Spelling
• Reading accuracy, rate, and fluency
• Reading comprehension
• Expressive and/or receptive vocabulary
• Listening comprehension
• Short–term memory
• Writing