How I Can Help Your Child

• Provide strategies to help students in grades 5-12 master the writing process across the curriculum, from brainstorming to developing a thesis to making careful final edits and revisions

• Model close reading strategies that enable students to delve deeper and locate the critical ideas of challenging texts

• Introduce effective study habits and organizational skills that are crucial to academic success

• Aid in improving grades, test scores, and confidence

• Focus on building critical thinking skills

• Take their writing to the next level(s) by expanding vocabulary, improving fluency, developing more sophisticated sentence structure and word choice, and polishing punctuation and grammar

• Guide them to find meaning and joy in learning

• Nurture a love of language

• Help students develop an inter-disciplinary perspective that enables them to see the ideas and themes that connect classes and disciplines

• Lay the foundations for familiarity with the intellectual history crucial to seeing the bigger picture and discovering meaning

• Coach recitation

• Model thoughtful and thorough approaches to assignments

• Bolster short-term memory for exams

• Serve as a sounding board and confidante’ as they navigate the often frustrating, sometimes maddening world of school