By Your Side Tutoring addresses the core difficulties that students with Dyslexia typically exhibit: poor phonological awareness, weakened memory, and sequencing problems.

By Your Side Tutoring provides step by step instruction on how to teach a student with Dyslexia. This includes explicit teaching of the sound/symbol relationship, methods of word attack, spelling strategies and rudiments of grammar.

Overview of course content (4 terms)

Parents who complete all 4 terms in 1 year will receive instruction on how to teach in a structured, multi sensory way.

The following list is an overview of the content being taught;

• Sequencing skills with the alphabet

• Phonological awareness skills: rhyme, alliteration, segmentation, deletion

• Explicit teaching of the sound/symbol relationship
  for letters A-Z and diagraphs sh th ck

• Consonant blends

• Open and closed syllables

• 4 syllable division patterns

• Separation of words into parts: prefix, base word
  and suffix

• Grammar: noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

• Punctuation

• High Frequency words

• Spelling rules

• Linked cursive script

• Strategies for remembering

• Organizational skills