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1:1 Online Literacy Tutoring
Reading Strategies for Students with ADHD
Structured, Multi-Sensory Tutoring Tailored to Your Child’s Learning Style.
Tutoring includes initial Literacy Assessment.
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How we Help Your Child
Novel Tutoring has helped hundreds of students with attention challenges and ADHD to overcome reading struggles and unlock their true potential. See how we can help your child as well.
ADHD Specialists
In our ADHD Tutoring Program, we will match your child with an experienced reading tutor that is trained in Structured Literacy and best meets their personality. The tutor will provide undivided attention and work with your child in structured 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 your child to keep focus and 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 minutes each and may even be shorter to begin with, depending on your child’s needs. Throughout the program, you will receive a weekly progress report from our tutor via email.
ADHD - Challenge and Potential
ADHD brings its own set of challenges in learning - short attention spans, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. However, it also opens a door to extraordinary strengths - creativity, energy, and exceptional problem-solving skills. We recognize the emotional journey for families from having worked with many students who struggle with focus and attention over the past 10 years - the concern when your child falls behind with reading, the frustration with traditional teaching methods, and the worry about their their academic and social well-being.
Our program acknowledges the challenges for children diagnosed with ADHD, but more importantly, it focuses on the potential within each child. We aim to transform perceived weaknesses into avenues for success, fostering an environment where children with ADHD can thrive. 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 ADHD that they wished to have in the past.
The Novel approach is rooted in understanding, patience, and the belief that every child has the ability to excel in their own distinctive way. Our tutors aim to unlock the full spectrum of your child's potential and empowering them to see ADHD not as a hindrance but as a unique strength.
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.
Tutoring includes an initial assessment of your child’s literacy skills
Optional | In Toronto
Rapid Reading Intervention
1-week Intensive Reading Course
This one on one in-person reading course is ideal for children with ADHD 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.