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1:1 Online Literacy Tutoring
Your Child Can Overcome Dyslexia.
Unlock Your Child’s Reading Potential with Personalized Orton-Gillingham Tutoring.
Tutoring includes initial Literacy Assessment
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How we Help Your Child
Novel Tutoring has helped hundreds of students diagnosed with dyslexia to overcome their reading struggles and unlock their true potential. See how we can help your child as well.
Dyslexia Specialists
In our Dyslexia Tutoring Program, we will match your child with an experienced dyslexia tutor that is trained in Structured Literacy and best meets their personality. The tutor will provide undivided attention and work with your child through fun and engaging exercises.
Assessment
Your tutor will start with a thorough assessment of your child’s reading skills and preferred learning style. Based on the outcome, we will develop a customized learning plan for your child including multi-sensory activities that help process learnings.
Intensive Learning
Your child will work with our tutor online in two or more virtual 1:1 sessions per week. Sessions are 30 to 60 minutes each, depending on your child’s needs. Throughout the program, you will receive a weekly progress report from our tutor via email.
Dyslexia - Challenge and Potential
Dyslexia presents unique challenges and remarkable potential. It is more than just a learning difficulty, it is a different way of processing language. We recognize the emotional journey for families from having worked with many dyslexic students over the past 10 years - the concern when your child struggles with reading, the frustration with traditional teaching methods, and the worry about their their academic and social well-being.
For children with dyslexia, the world of words can be a maze of confusion, impacting reading, writing, spelling, and sometimes verbal communication. This often leads to a lack of confidence, reluctance to participate in class, and feelings of isolation.
But hidden within these challenges lies extraordinary potential. Children with dyslexia often exhibit creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and a unique perspective of the world. With the right support and teaching methods, they can excel not only in academics but also in life, turning their perceived weaknesses into strengths.
Our founders Robyn and Martha understand these challenges intimately. Though never formally diagnosed with a learning disability, they struggled to focus and read in the classroom. At Novel Tutoring, they have created the learning environment for students with dyslexia that they wished to have in the past.
The Novel approach aims to unlock the full spectrum of your child's potential, nurturing their self-esteem, and empowering them to see dyslexia not as a hindrance but as a unique strength. Together, we can transform the narrative around dyslexia.
“I would give 6 stars if I could! My daughter was diagnosed with Dyslexia last year. I searched for months before finally finding Novel Tutoring. I can’t believe the difference in my daughter’s confidence and reading ability!”
Tailored Learning with the Orton-Gillingham Approach
Multi-sensory strategies
We offer students multi-sensory tools and strategies that help them process language using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile learning pathways, simultaneously. Students process learnings more effectively can retain concepts long-term.
Direct and explicit instruction
Orton-Gillingham has identified hundreds of patterns and consistencies in English, turning language into a math and science. We use direct and explicit instruction to teach these patterns and consistencies to our learners, and takes the guesswork out of learning how to read.
Child-centered learning
All our tutoring programs are tailored to each student’s specific learning needs. Our initial Orton-Gillingham based assessment identifies literacy gaps and leads to a customized learning plan that incorporates a student’s likes and interests as much as possible.
Basic to complex
After we know the foundational literacy gaps that the student is struggling with, our phonics tutors move from basic to complex material. We make sure that each learner is successful as they tackle new challenges so that they gain confidence in their ability to read and write.
Hear from our Families
Meet our Expert Tutors
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How Tutoring With Novel Works
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Book A Free Consultation
Find out if your child needs tutoring, how often you should have lessons, and how long it will take to see results in a free consultation with one of our literacy experts.
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Literacy Assessment
Our tutoring journey starts with a comprehensive literacy assessment that is the basis of a tailored learning plan for your child with the right curriculum and tutor.
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Customized Teaching Plan
Our Tutors are available 7 days a week for lessons before school, in the afternoon, or at night. We will find a time that meets your family’s needs
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Weekly Lesson Reports
Our tutors keep you up to speed on your child’s development with comprehensive lesson and progress reports every week.
Ready to unlock your child’s full potential?
Take the first step towards getting your child the help that works for them, and set up a free consultation with Robyn, one of our founders. to learn more about our offering and pricing.
Optional | In Toronto
Rapid Reading Intervention
1-week Intensive Reading Course
Our one on one in-person reading course is ideal for children with dyslexia to get a head start in building their reading skills. After an initial assessment, your child will spend 5 hours per day for one week 1:1 with an experienced literacy tutor. Most of our students see a notable increase in their reading and writing confidence at the end of the first week.
The Intensive Reading Course is currently offered only in Toronto, ON, Canada.