ECL Tutoring Service
ELEMENTARY SK-8

Reading and spelling
- comprehensive sound-symbol instruction
- emphasis on phonological/sound processing activities to develop reading sub-skills that are critical for development
- strategy instruction to help students become flexible 'decoders' and tackle multi-syllable words in a structured manner
- emphasis on careful monitoring of comprehension during reading
- extensive opportunity provided for students to reinforce their newly acquired skills through reading high-interest materials that are at an appropriate level of difficulty
- sound-symbol and strategy instruction to help students attempt to spell words in a more structured manner
- instruction on the most consistent spelling rules
Reading comprehension and vocabulary
- direct instruction on comprehending simple, compound, and complex sentences
- students taught to search for key words that highlight the structure of 'cause & effect', 'compare & contrast', 'time-order', and 'definition' sentences and paragraphs
- specific strategies are taught to help students scan for relevant information in text and to link their answer directly to the question
- instruction to assist students in determining the main idea of a paragraph or passage and to locate details that support the main idea
- students are exposed to narrative, expository, persuasive, and informational passages and given opportunity to answer questions of varying levels of complexity
- strategies to help students enhance their ability to infer cause, effect, main idea, word meaning, and to draw reasonable conclusions
- instruction to improve students' ability to understand figurative language – similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles, and personification
- opportunity provided to students to improve oral vocabulary through word study activities and reading of text
Writing and grammar
- taught the basic parts of speech and how to write grammatically correct simple, compound, and complex sentences
- instruction in proper capitalization and punctuation
- pre-writing activities to help students brainstorm and organize their ideas
- students taught to create well-structured paragraphs and essays using words that signal the structure of their writing
- opportunity to write narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive paragraphs
- instruction on essay and report-writing
- strategies for self-editing written work
Expressive and receptive language
- taught basic grammatical elements of a complete thought
- intensive practice at forming sentences and evaluating the clarity of expression
- instruction on organizing thoughts using signal words to make verbal expression more structured and more easily understood
- intensive feedback on the grammatical correctness of verbal expression and on the appropriate choice of words to express a specific idea
- practice responding to questions in complete thoughts/sentences that link directly to the question being asked
- instruction on inferring meaning
Math
- taught how to do basic calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, decimals
- instruction proceeds from concrete to abstract, and simple to complex
- emphasis on understanding rather than memorizing – students are encouraged to search for patterns, visualize, create diagrams, think through the concepts in words before number crunching, and to reflect on the appropriateness of the final answer
- strategies are taught to help students with word problems
- instruction in all areas of the elementary curriculum: number sense and numeration, measurement, geometry and spatial sense, patterning and algebra, data management and probability
Decision-making and problem-solving
- establishing criteria for decision-making
- finding information relevant to making a decision
- evaluating worth of information
- organizing information to aid decision-making or problem-solving
- generating possible solutions and determining the best solution
- solving word and logic problems
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HOURS OF OPERATIONS
Monday–Thursday: 3:00 p.m.– 8:30p.m. in Ajax, Ontario
WE SPECIALIZE IN
- After-School Tutoring Services
- Group Elementary Math Classes
- Educational Programs
- Summer Learning Camp
- Special Education
- Elementary Subjects Tutoring
- High School Math
- High School Chemistry
- High School Physics
- High School English
- High School History
- High School Biology
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