Lab School offers online tutoring for students with language-based learning differences as well as for students who do not have a diagnosed learning difference but may need one-on-one instruction in one or more core academic areas.
Our online Tutors are specialists in learning differences education — they provide tutoring services that offer individual attention and skill reinforcement, giving each learner the extra support they need to succeed.
We know students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences need reading instruction that is based on scientific evidence. As well, students without a diagnosed reading learning difference also benefit from instruction grounded in the Science of Reading. Our online tutors use their expert toolbox to strengthen reading skills at all levels.
Areas of reading tutoring include:
Phonemic awareness
Decoding
Spelling
Reading fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension strategies
Writing is an essential part of our daily lives and as such, effective writing skills are indispensable. Our online tutors help students develop and strengthen skills needed throughout the writing process.
Areas of writing tutoring intervention include:
Generating written sentences with correct grammar and punctuation
Improving the complexity and coherence of paragraph and multi-paragraph writing
Moving through the writing process from idea generation to finished product
Note-taking skills
Building students’ mathematical understanding doesn’t just mean strengthening one area of the brain that is involved with abstract numbers; it means enhancing connections between areas of the brain and strengthening visual pathways. Our online tutors incorporate multimodal methods to engage students in learning math.
Areas of tutoring intervention include:
Performing simple calculations from memory
Language of Math (e.g., math vocabulary, math symbols)
Recognizing patterns and placing things in order
Focus on learning basic math functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and more
Understanding and solving word problems
Visual-spatial ideas like graphs and charts
Online Tutoring Packages
Our online tutoring services are bundled together in packages of 10 sixty-minute sessions for $1,500/package and are delivered in a 1:1 setting by trained teachers with degrees in special education and/or specific education content areas.