769 Glenview Autism Tutors

...I have taught students how to scan text, locate headings, underscore vocabulary, read text, paraphrase ideas, examine illustrations, elaborate on main points, summarize their notes and highlight key words and clues from text. I am a recently retired special education teacher of 30 years. I have worked with groups of students 7 to 17 years of age... read more

...I am currently teaching Kindergarten at a private school in the Northern suburbs of Chicago. I teach phonics to my Kindergarten students using the Words Their Way curricula. I have 18 years of competitive swimming experience, including four years of high school varsity swimming and less than a year of collegiate swimming at Colgate University (Division... read more

...I incorporate games, early "learning to read" books, flash cards, and creative writing activities to teach and reinforce spelling skills. I teach the student strategies for remembering spelling rules. When writing,I encourage children to initially get their thoughts on paper and then go back to edit their spelling. With the older children, I have... read more

..., Rousseau, Berkeley, Hobbes, Mill, Spencer, Russell, Sartre, to name a few) were also great prose stylists. I'm also very fond of and well-read in history, and philosophy can also be taught as a history of ideas. I was a high scorer on my ACT, especially in English-related areas. My method is to use sample tests from ACT literature, supplemented... read more

...As students advance in school, the number and complexity of assignments increases. At the same time, the amount of individual academic support decreases. This can create problems for students with marginal organization and study skills, despite past success. Study skills include the ability to take and use notes, to organize information in a way... read more