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.

By Your Side Tutoring suggests two courses, A and B, (4 terms), of instruction will help to get your child 'on the way' to growing in confidence with reading and spelling.

Costs are $675 for course A, which includes the kit you will need, and $600 for course B. This works out to be under $35 a lesson.

Overview of course content

Parents who complete Course A and Course B [1 year] will receive instruction on how to teach in a structured, multi sensory way.

The following list is an overview of the content of Courses
A and B:

• 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