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Tammy S.

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Phonics, Reading, or Speech-Language Tutor
Phonics, Reading, or Speech-Language Tutor
Tammy S.

4.8 (166 ratings)

384 hours tutoring

Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee
4.8 (166 ratings)

384 hours tutoring

Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

About Tammy

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I have tutored students (online or in person) in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, middle school, and in adult levels in reading, math, language, vocabulary, speech, spelling, and phonics. I have extensive knowledge of various spelling instructional approaches, spelling rules, patterns, and strategies, including phonics, phoneme awareness, syllabication, word families, prefixes and suffixes and spelling generalizations. I...

I have tutored students (online or in person) in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, middle school, and in adult levels in reading, math, language, vocabulary, speech, spelling, and phonics. I have extensive knowledge of various spelling instructional approaches, spelling rules, patterns, and strategies, including phonics, phoneme awareness, syllabication, word families, prefixes and suffixes and spelling generalizations. I successfully implemented phonics, reading, and spelling tutoring sessions, using the Barton Spelling system and Orton-Gillingham method combined with grade level spelling and vocabulary word lists. I am also very familiar with the general elementary education phonics curriculum. I can informally assess speech articulation skills, using speech therapist guidelines that I learned in work and in studying communication disorders and speech-language pathology. I can also tutor students placed in speech-language therapy who have received Individualized Education Plans from their speech-language therapists at school.
I have been a Speech-Language Teacher(Speech-Language Pathologist) with experience teaching all qualified students in speech-language therapy. I have been tutoring online with the online tutoring site here since July 2020. When parents have the students' Individualized Education Plan with the articulation goals for the upcoming school year, I can target the sounds in their goals and they can see themselves succeed online with me providing the modeling and feedback and keeping track of their progress.
In person, I have tutored reading, math, and speech-language skills. As a full time teacher, I taught in the special education setting doing speech therapy as a Speech-Language Teacher for students of all ages, preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school, regular classroom speech-language impaired and special needs students.

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Education

Lenoir-Rhyne University and Western Carolina University
undergrad
Western Carolina University
Graduate Coursework

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $38
  • Rate details: Cancellation policy with no warning before the lesson starts, fee for the entire lesson. Lessons required to be a minimum of 20 minutes and can last up to an hour.
  • Lesson cancellation: 24 hours notice required

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Approved Subjects

Corporate Training

ESL/ESOL,

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.
Grammar

Grammar

As a certified Speech-Language Therapist and a tutor, I taught students grammar. I taught them to speak orally, using selected individualized student age or grade level appropriate vocabulary, to make sentences with good sentence structure and with good verb tense and subject agreement.

Elementary Education

Common Core,

Common Core

I worked as a Speech-Language Teacher, providing language goals that I implemented by using the Common Core Standards. I have tutored Reading, Spelling, and Phonics, using these Common Core Standards to help students improve in their Reading, Spelling, and Phonics. I have also used the standards to set grammar and vocabulary goals for tutoring lessons.
Grammar,

Grammar

As a certified Speech-Language Therapist and a tutor, I taught students grammar. I taught them to speak orally, using selected individualized student age or grade level appropriate vocabulary, to make sentences with good sentence structure and with good verb tense and subject agreement.
Homeschool,

Homeschool

I have a BA in Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education and a BS Ed. in Communication Disorders. I also completed all graduate coursework in Communication Disorders. I worked in the public school setting as a Speech-Language Teacher.
Phonics,

Phonics

I have a background in tutoring phonics to kindergarten through fifth-grade level students. I have a degree and experience in Elementary Education. I also taught Speech-Language or articulation skills to Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle school, and high school age students. I have more than ten years of experience in teaching and tutoring combined.
Reading,

Reading

I can tutor in Reading. I have BA in Elementary Education. I currently am certified to teach students in grades K-6th grade in Reading and love to tutor the phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, teaching students to work on good sentence - subject verb agreement and other reading and writing basics.
Spelling,

Spelling

I work to teach the word recognition and sounding it out and then spelling it to the teacher after homework practice. I work with grade level Spelling charts which have word patterns in word lists for each specific grade level. I have the child read the words then practice writing them 3-5 times each. Then, I work to help them use the words in sentences after they learn the words. I give Spelling tests and tell them exactly which words to practice for the Spelling tests.
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

I teach children in preschool through fifth grade vocabulary. I have been tutoring or teaching for 30 years. I can supplement vocabulary instruction with spelling, grammar, and reading lessons.

English

English,

English

I tutor children grades K through Fifth grade in Reading and Expressive Language. My lessons encourage answering questions about stories on their level and learning grade level vocabulary words. The students can learn word recognition oral language and concentrate on how to define new grade level vocabulary during my lessons.
ESL/ESOL,

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.
Grammar,

Grammar

As a certified Speech-Language Therapist and a tutor, I taught students grammar. I taught them to speak orally, using selected individualized student age or grade level appropriate vocabulary, to make sentences with good sentence structure and with good verb tense and subject agreement.
Reading,

Reading

I can tutor in Reading. I have BA in Elementary Education. I currently am certified to teach students in grades K-6th grade in Reading and love to tutor the phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, teaching students to work on good sentence - subject verb agreement and other reading and writing basics.
Spelling,

Spelling

I work to teach the word recognition and sounding it out and then spelling it to the teacher after homework practice. I work with grade level Spelling charts which have word patterns in word lists for each specific grade level. I have the child read the words then practice writing them 3-5 times each. Then, I work to help them use the words in sentences after they learn the words. I give Spelling tests and tell them exactly which words to practice for the Spelling tests.
Vocabulary,

Vocabulary

I teach children in preschool through fifth grade vocabulary. I have been tutoring or teaching for 30 years. I can supplement vocabulary instruction with spelling, grammar, and reading lessons.
Writing

Writing

I can listen to your writing samples and give tips for improvement. I can give prompts for better writing. I can help students improve their vocabulary use and spelling ability. I also have a game called write in the missing letter for words they need to learn to spell. I can also let them try to name the missing words in grammatically correct sentences that help their writing have better transition or clarity. I can help them work to write scrambled letters as correctly spelled words.

Homeschool

English,

English

I tutor children grades K through Fifth grade in Reading and Expressive Language. My lessons encourage answering questions about stories on their level and learning grade level vocabulary words. The students can learn word recognition oral language and concentrate on how to define new grade level vocabulary during my lessons.
ESL/ESOL,

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.
Reading,

Reading

I can tutor in Reading. I have BA in Elementary Education. I currently am certified to teach students in grades K-6th grade in Reading and love to tutor the phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, teaching students to work on good sentence - subject verb agreement and other reading and writing basics.
Spelling,

Spelling

I work to teach the word recognition and sounding it out and then spelling it to the teacher after homework practice. I work with grade level Spelling charts which have word patterns in word lists for each specific grade level. I have the child read the words then practice writing them 3-5 times each. Then, I work to help them use the words in sentences after they learn the words. I give Spelling tests and tell them exactly which words to practice for the Spelling tests.
Writing

Writing

I can listen to your writing samples and give tips for improvement. I can give prompts for better writing. I can help students improve their vocabulary use and spelling ability. I also have a game called write in the missing letter for words they need to learn to spell. I can also let them try to name the missing words in grammatically correct sentences that help their writing have better transition or clarity. I can help them work to write scrambled letters as correctly spelled words.

Language

ESL/ESOL

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.

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English,

English

I tutor children grades K through Fifth grade in Reading and Expressive Language. My lessons encourage answering questions about stories on their level and learning grade level vocabulary words. The students can learn word recognition oral language and concentrate on how to define new grade level vocabulary during my lessons.
ESL/ESOL,

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.
Reading,

Reading

I can tutor in Reading. I have BA in Elementary Education. I currently am certified to teach students in grades K-6th grade in Reading and love to tutor the phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, teaching students to work on good sentence - subject verb agreement and other reading and writing basics.
Writing

Writing

I can listen to your writing samples and give tips for improvement. I can give prompts for better writing. I can help students improve their vocabulary use and spelling ability. I also have a game called write in the missing letter for words they need to learn to spell. I can also let them try to name the missing words in grammatically correct sentences that help their writing have better transition or clarity. I can help them work to write scrambled letters as correctly spelled words.

Other

ESL/ESOL

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.

Special Needs

Phonics,

Phonics

I have a background in tutoring phonics to kindergarten through fifth-grade level students. I have a degree and experience in Elementary Education. I also taught Speech-Language or articulation skills to Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle school, and high school age students. I have more than ten years of experience in teaching and tutoring combined.
Speech

Speech

I have worked as a Speech-Language Teacher in the public schools for Elementary, Middle School, and High School age students. I was certified for 18 years. I can tutor online Speech lessons for Elementary, Middle School, and High School students. I completed the graduate school coursework in Communication Disorders.

Summer

ESL/ESOL,

ESL/ESOL

I am interested in working with children or adults learning English as a second language. I have experience in teaching Speech-Language to the Speech-Language Impaired who were also classified ESL. I have taught vocabulary, grammar, correct use of sentence structure, situational language, and articulation skills to students with English as a second language, during my past experience as a Speech Teacher and online tutor.
Reading,

Reading

I can tutor in Reading. I have BA in Elementary Education. I currently am certified to teach students in grades K-6th grade in Reading and love to tutor the phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, teaching students to work on good sentence - subject verb agreement and other reading and writing basics.
Writing

Writing

I can listen to your writing samples and give tips for improvement. I can give prompts for better writing. I can help students improve their vocabulary use and spelling ability. I also have a game called write in the missing letter for words they need to learn to spell. I can also let them try to name the missing words in grammatically correct sentences that help their writing have better transition or clarity. I can help them work to write scrambled letters as correctly spelled words.

Test Preparation

Common Core

Common Core

I worked as a Speech-Language Teacher, providing language goals that I implemented by using the Common Core Standards. I have tutored Reading, Spelling, and Phonics, using these Common Core Standards to help students improve in their Reading, Spelling, and Phonics. I have also used the standards to set grammar and vocabulary goals for tutoring lessons.

Examples of Expertise

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Ratings and Reviews

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Reviews

Great First lesson!

The first lesson went very well. She is patient with my daughter and has her set up on a good plan to help with her reading.

Amber, 23 lessons with Tammy

Helps support conversation.

Tammy helps by conversation and using descriptive words. Its important to show interest in the student and Tammy did just that. She helped my son to know that he can partake in a conversation. Thank you Tammy!

Jennifer, 1 lesson with Tammy

Patient & Upbeat

Tammy has been working with my 6 yr old daughter. It’s been a great experience thus far. My daughter is very comfortable with her and Tammy has been attentive to her needs as well as accommodating with the lessons she prepares for her.

Suzan, 43 lessons with Tammy

Patient and kind

My son likes Tammy as his teacher. He feels very comfortable speaking with her and taking class with her because she stays patient and kind. She also tries to make it interesting and fun for him especially since hes 5 years old with short attention span. He is usually shy about speaking but she has been able to keep him willing to cooperate and learn from her. Glad to have found her!

Rabiah, 7 lessons with Tammy

knowledgeable and patient tutor

Thanks Tammy, for all that you do to help my son in reading. I like how you show an interest in his schooling. Thank you for teaching him about the usa map and Christopher Columbus,thank you for teaching him with what,when why and where questions becouse he had a struggle with that,thanks for being a patient tutor also. We really do appreciate you.Thanks you!

Nicole, 71 lessons with Tammy

Great first lesson!

My daughters really enjoyed their first lesson with Tammy. It was all they talked about after she left and today (the day after) I arrived home from work to find them working on their homework assignments. Tammy listened very carefully to the girls attempts at reading and did a great job motivating them to work just a little bit harder on the tougher words and it was just that motivation that I was looking for in a teacher. We are looking forward to the next lesson!

Luke, 50 lessons with Tammy
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