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Tammy S.

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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

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  • Rate details: Cancellation with no warning before the lesson starts, fee for the entire lesson. Lessons required to be at least 30 min. I only wait 15 minutes for student to show in the lesson room.
  • Lesson cancellation: 24 hours notice required

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Approved Subjects

Accent Reduction

Accent Reduction

I have experience and education in teaching pronunciation of all American English sounds in therapy. I begin with assessing a person's speech and forming a plan for the sounds that need work. We begin at the level needed by the student for each sound needing improvement and progress to the conversational level or farthest level needed by the student whether that be formal speech level or advanced reading aloud level for example.
ADHD

ADHD

I had some experience teaching students with ADD and ADHD in elementary school and middle school. I have a teaching certificate for Elementary and Early Childhood Education. I can be of some help with tutoring the different subjects that these students take.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

I worked for seven years as a Speech Therapist in the public school setting which included helping autistic students (ages preschool to high school) learn their Speech-Language skills in social settings and in the classroom. My tutoring experience presently includes helping autistic students who can learn some reading or spelling work and participate in conversation or speech lessons. I have done in person and online tutoring helping autistic students learn to read or participate in conversation better.
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.
Dyslexia

Dyslexia

I have taught phonics to students with dyslexia online. I have helped students get a better grade in Reading by using the common methods of teaching students with dyslexia. I have assessed students' abilities to read grade level spelling word lists and grade level reading selections in order to plan their reading and phonics lessons. I have applied the use of the Orton-Gillingham reading method when tutoring students in Reading and Phonics.
Elementary (K-6th)

Elementary (K-6th)

I have been certified in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, and Speech for at least fifteen years. I can tutor any subject in Elementary, K-6.
Elementary Math

Elementary Math

My certification is in teaching all subjects of K-6th grade. I can tutor your child in math with an individualized learning method.
Elementary Science

Elementary Science

I have access to online tutoring materials for Elementary Science up to the end of third grade. I can help students learn the basics in Elementary Science by encouraging them to choose an Elementary Science topic for our lesson from the different online topics grade level lists. I can make those online Science materials available to them.
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. I learned to speak Spanish in high school and college so I can know what sounds need to be given emphasis when native Spanish speakers are learning English.
GED

GED

I am certified to tutor GED test preparation. I have passed the GED tutor test preparation questions and can use my new certification in an online share screen method for assessing and then teaching all skills that a student can demonstrate are needed for improving in the GED skills assessed.
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.
PSAT

PSAT

I have experience in tutoring and an education degree. Anyone with the need to get help preparing for the PSAT can get my assistance with the test preparation. I can write sample questions or give input for learning vocabulary for example. I can help someone improve writing skills or grammar if that be the need. Someone might need help learning to paraphrase articles to increase reading comprehension. I can discuss using the sample questions and expanding on that if someone needs extra help. We can discuss what the person needs to work on improving and go from there.
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.
Special Needs

Special Needs

My recent experience was working as the Speech-Language Teacher who saw students with Speech-Language impairments, autism, mental disability, or learning disability, integrating their speaking or language/grammar goals from their individualized education plans with elementary type subjects. I did this five years for the state of SC. I have most recently taken coursework which included tips on teaching reading, writing, or math to students with dyslexia. I learned tips for teaching slow learners in Jan. 2012 for my certificate renewal. This coursework was taught to me through the PBS Teacherline. The teaching method the course taught me to stress is repetition, and the course taught me that it takes up to twenty times sometimes for a new word or concept to be learned by special needs students who have learning disabilities that include memory problems or dyslexia or difficulties with learning writing skills. I also updated my knowledge of children's literature and my knowledge of more recently published literature in specific grade level lists. I assess interests of students and suggest videos that make them motivated to try to speak, read or write. Hopefully, students can benefit from my help if they have special needs and learning disabilities.
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.
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.
Study Skills

Study Skills

I have at least ten years of experience in teaching and tutoring students in learning independent study skills. Each student is different so I modify my teaching of study skills to meet the needs of each student, for each given subject. I have helped elementary students improve study skills in Math and Reading mostly.
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.
ACT English
Astronomy
Geography
Proofreading

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Reviews

Great service!

My child is showing great progress. I would definitely recommend Ms. Tammy to tutor anyone's child. She wants to know information that would help her such as words you have noticed is difficult for the child to pronounce.

Shaneka, 23 lessons with Tammy

Knowledgeable and patient tutor

Prior to meeting, Tammy had asked thorough questions to tailor the lesson to my daughter’s needs. As she was teaching, she provided lots of feedback and was able to customized certain parts of the lesson to match my daughter’s skills and comfort. Tammy was well prepared and had a strong curriculum for our first lesson.

Anne-Liza, 1 lesson with Tammy

Tutoring review.

During our recent session, Tammy and I went through the sounds that I had trouble pronouncing. She was extremely helpful in guiding me through the correct pronunciation of each sound, and I found her to be very knowledgeable and patient. I truly enjoyed my time with her and appreciated her professionalism throughout the session.

Yenny, 29 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

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

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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