Ignite a love for reading and help students build lifelong literacy skills 🌟. Through rich stories, engaging discussions, and structured practice, you'll guide students to become confident readers. You'll teach reading skills tailored to each student’s grade level, focusing on key areas like phonics, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and literary analysis.
Are you a good fit?
We’re looking for tutors who:
- Have a strong foundation in reading instruction and literacy development
- Know how to teach reading strategies in a way that's developmentally appropriate and engaging
- Are familiar with the progression of reading skills across grade levels
- Have experience planning and delivering effective reading lessons
Reading trial assessment
Just like with all other subjects, you’ll begin with an initial trial assessment for Reading. Use the provided slide decks to evaluate your learner’s reading fluency, comprehension, decoding, and vocabulary knowledge based on their grade level.
The trial session is an opportunity to observe the student’s current reading behaviors and skills so you can set personalized goals and plan future lessons that support growth. Here is where you find all reading trial slide decks
Weekly reading classes
Here is the pacing guide for weekly reading classes:
- Introductions: Welcome your student back to class. Catch up with them before you get started. Ask how they’re doing or if they’ve read anything fun lately.
- Goal Review: Quickly review reading goals you are looking to make progress on.
- Main Lesson: Jump into your planned reading activity—this might include guided reading, interactive phonics games, shared reading, or close reading of a text.
- Wrap-up: Reflect on what you worked on, revisit your goals, and talk about what you’ll read or work on next time.
Adding reading as a subject
It’s easy to update your subjects and start tutoring in reading! Just follow these quick steps:
- Log in to your Tutor Dashboard.
- Go to Profile on your dashboard and click on “Edit Profile"
- Select Reading and grades you’d like to add to tutor in reading
- Save your changes — and you’re all set! 🎯
FAQ
Q: Who can I teach Reading to?
A: You can teach Reading to students across all grade levels, from emergent readers just starting with phonics to older students analyzing complex texts. Select the grade levels you’re most experienced with.
Q: What reading skills will I cover in sessions?
A: Depending on the student’s age, level and needs, sessions may focus on:
- Foundational skills: phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding
- Fluency: reading smoothly with expression and accuracy
- Comprehension: making inferences, identifying main ideas, summarizing
- Vocabulary: learning new words in context
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Literary elements: theme, character, plot, genre
Each lesson is tailored to the learner’s current level and goals.
Q: What is the purpose of the Reading trial assessment?
A: It helps you understand the student’s strengths and areas of growth, so you can build rapport, set goals, and plan effective instruction. Use the Reading trial slide deck to guide your evaluation.
Q: Do I need to use physical books?
A: Digital resources are best! You can use digital texts, shared screen read-alouds, interactive tools, and reading passages from educational websites. The key is engagement.
Q: Will there be a trial session for Reading?
A: Yes! Every student begins with a trial session. Use this time to evaluate current reading skills and interests. Don’t forget to use the Reading assessment slide deck to guide your observations.
Q: Do I need to set reading goals for each student?
A: Yes! Clear, personalized goals help guide instruction and keep sessions meaningful. Goals also help families see their child’s progress over time.
Q: Why is setting reading goals important?
A: Goals are very important! Here are some reasons why:
- Give structure to your sessions
- Help students and families track progress
- Encourage motivation and accountability
- Create opportunities to celebrate success
Q: Do I need to walk families through the booking process after the Reading trial?
A: Yes! Wrap up your trial by sharing what you observed, discussing potential goals, and helping families book future sessions. Use the QR code on the final trial slide to make scheduling easy.
More questions? Email our team at: tutoring-support@classdojo.com