ClubhouseTutoringOnline literacy tutoring
Personalized instruction for reading, spelling, and writing, shaped around what will help your learner understand and progress.
Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction
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As parents, we know how hard it is to watch our children struggle as we search for ways to help. If you’ve been there too, please know you’ve found the right place. So, take a deep breath, relax those shoulders, and let us show you just how quickly we can turn things around.
Using EBLI (Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction), we help your child understand how sounds, spellings, reading, and writing all fit together. If your child has been working hard but reading still isn’t clicking, it isn’t because they need to try harder. Many children simply need instruction that matches how their brains learn to read. That’s where we come in. We find the gaps, work through them step by step, and cheer your child on as they build new skills and confidence.
Areas of literacy support
Strong reading instruction develops five essential areas: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Scarborough's Reading Rope helps us look more closely at the connected knowledge and skills that make fluent reading possible. Every child is different. By looking closely at these smaller skills, we can identify where your child needs support and create a learning plan that helps them move forward with confidence.
Word recognition
Language comprehension
A clearer way forward
At Clubhouse, we use a Speech-to-Print approach called linguistic phonics to explicitly teach the logic of the English alphabetic code. Learners begin with the sounds of English and discover how one sound can be represented by one, two, three, or four letters.
Next we explore how the same sound can be spelled in multiple ways. Let's take the sound of /j/ as in the word jam. That sound can be spelled by:
Your child is taught to decode advanced spelling patterns early on in instruction.
We also teach how a single spelling can represent more than one sound. The letter <y>, for example, represents four distinct sounds, as demonstrated by:
As learners build the skills to decode (read) words accurately, they also learn to encode (spell) them. Lessons progress systematically, with each new concept building on knowledge that has already been taught.
Instruction develops the skills behind reading, writing, and spelling, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and handwriting. Our teaching is guided by current Science of Reading research into how children learn to read.
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Let's match your learner with targeted support that starts where they are and builds the skills they need next.
F.A.Q Before we meet
A consultation gives us room to understand the learner before recommending a plan.
Every student begins with a comprehensive initial assessment so we can understand their current skills and identify where support is needed. We then complete monthly progress checks, send weekly lesson reports, and share detailed assessment results so you can clearly see their growth over time.
We work with students from Kindergarten through Grade 12 and can also support adult learners. Our math tutoring extends through second-year university courses. Lessons are based on each learner's current skills, needs, and goals rather than age or grade level alone.
Your child will need a laptop or desktop computer with a camera and microphone, a reliable internet connection, and a quiet place to work. An additional external document camera is needed so our educators can see their spelling and writing as it happens. A roomy whiteboard (11x15), EXPO dry-erase markers, pencil, and notebook are also helpful.
Many of the students we work with also have ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), anxiety, or other learning and developmental differences. A diagnosis can help explain part of the picture, but it doesn't tell us everything about your child. No two children with the same diagnosis learn in exactly the same way. We take time to understand your child's strengths, challenges, interests, and what helps them learn best. Our educators can adjust the pace, structure, communication, and teaching approach to help your child feel comfortable, stay engaged, and make meaningful progress.
Lessons are 50 minutes long and start on the hour. We typically recommend starting with one or two lessons per week, depending on your child's needs, goals, and schedule. After the initial assessment, we can recommend the lesson frequency that will provide the right level of support.