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1139 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn

4.9 56 reviews

  • Avatar Emily Matles ★★★★★ a week ago
    We would highly recommend Ally! Our son always asks about her, so very thankful to Brooklyn Letters for introducing us.
    ~ Emily, mom of Brooklyn 2 year old
  • Avatar T Ainsley ★★★★★ 5 months ago
    I cannot express how grateful and rewarding my experience with Brooklyn Letters has been. Her tutor Ms. Daria is so knowledgeable, amazing, kind and awesome. My daughter has made so much progress in Literacy and Math and it's all … More thanks to Ms. Daria. I know my daughter is sad that she can no longer work with Ms. Daria, as she looked forward to their sessions every week. Thank you again!
  • Avatar Natalie Levon ★★★★★ 4 months ago
    Nicole has been an amazing therapist!! She played a tremendous role in our daughter’s speech progress and overall development. She has come such a long way and we are so happy with the therapy she received!
  • Avatar Colin Peters ★★★★★ 6 months ago
    We could not be happier with the services Valerie provided! She is very thoughtful and knowledgeable and provided significant guidance to support our daughter's speech development outside of our scheduled sessions. She established … More a great working relationship with her, and she will definitely be missed! Your business model is amazing and it was an absolute pleasure working with Valerie. I've referred your organization and Valerie to the Executive Director of our daughter's school and friends/colleagues who are in need of speech therapy services.
  • Avatar Lil Amatore ★★★★★ 7 months ago
    Christina was absolutely wonderful. She went out of her way to win my son over and it worked. He looked forward to her visits and his speech improved so much under her care. She was super flexible and it’s clear she truly cares. We adore … More Christina and we’re going to miss her. Almost sad he improved so much! She’s simply amazing and we can’t say enough how great she is. I would recommend her services to anyone and everyone, without hesitation. Thank you so much for connecting us with her!
  • Avatar Heather Liljengren ★★★★★ a year ago
    We cannot say enough good things about Effie, the ASL teacher, who was so engaged and effective with our 2 year old daughter from the very first session! Effie gladly included our whole family in the sessions! Her expertise and fantastic … More personality gave our daughter a way to communicate that she was so desperately seeking. The coordinators at Brooklyn Letters were so helpful and communicative…I would highly recommend their services!
  • Avatar Brigid Bower ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Samantha Dalmas was fantastic! We saw her for a feeding therapy evaluation and while she doesn’t think my daughter needs more feeding therapy sessions at this time, but she gave me lots of tips to try. If my daughter's doctors want … More to see more progress at her next appointment, I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Samantha again.
  • Avatar Duygu Başaran ★★★★★ 11 months ago
    Brooklyn Letters was recommended to me through a friend's speech therapist friend in NJ. The articulation evaluation for my daughter went well. We were pleased with Kristin's services.
  • Avatar Kelley Peters-Patel ★★★★★ a year ago
    Melissa was wonderful. Our daughter warmed to her immediately and by the time she left, had already started "practicing" some of the techniques Melissa had shown her. I will not hesitate at all to reach out to Melissa again, should … More the need arise.
  • Avatar R Elmore ★★★★★ a year ago
    Aileen was INCREDIBLY helpful to us, both in assessing possible origins of my grandson's food aversions, as well as informing us of various available interventions to consider.
    I can’t thank you and Brooklyn Letters enough for connecting
    … More us with Aileen. In all our feeding therapy journey we have not gotten anything near the kind of benefit that we did from her. Her knowledge, professionalism, and responsiveness have put us on the path of progress with my grandson and has also made us feel genuinely well cared for.
  • Avatar Christine Weiher ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    We were amazed with Allison! She met my son at 2 1/2 years old, not speaking much at all, and over a computer, and she was able to develop a bond and friendship, so much so that he would look forward to his weekly computer time with Allison. … More I was not sure how the speech therapy would go- but we are so happy that we tried it out and continued. It allowed my son to gain confidence in his speech, make a new friend :), and also give him the skills and a bit of understanding of how to shape his mouth or where to place his tongue to make the proper sounds. We were extremely happy with Allison- she was fantastic to work with.
  • Avatar Andrea Saffady ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    My sessions with Karen have been extremely helpful. My speech has improved tremendously. In fact, I just finished 2 hours of conducting interviews with a consulting client via MS Teams and I have an upcoming conference call. Both my … More neurologist and neurosurgeon remarked about how good my speech is. Much of the day it is perfect, although I still have some rough spots when I get tired or speak too quickly. One of my granddaughters is a speech pathology student at Ithaca College. She sat in on 2 sessions while she was home for winter break, and she was very impressed with Karen.
  • Avatar Jacob B ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were delighted with Christie. First, and most importantly, our son made great strides under her guidance. So great, that we felt he no longer needed help! She was incredibly patient and kind with him and our son really responded to … More her. Christie was also great with me and my wife. She provided thorough and informative updates on our son's progress and which exercises she was using with him, so we could reinforce what she was teaching him. All in all, we had a fabulous experience with Christie and would highly recommend her.
  • Avatar Jessica C ★★★★★ a year ago
    Theo was wonderful and his work with my son has produced some progress. I am grateful for the services Theo provided.
  • Avatar Melissa Stevens ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Highly recommend Jill. She is a total pleasure to work with. After a few months working with Jill, my son is reading above grade level and LOVES to read. Mission accomplished!
  • Avatar Demet Evren ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Paige was great and we had been really happy with her. I would highly recommend her! I recommend Brooklyn Letters to whomever asks for a speech therapist.
  • Avatar Jeizel Rosenthal ★★★★★ 2 years ago
    Isabel was WONDERFUL and our son absolutely adored her, and he is making great progress with his reading and writing.
  • Avatar Lesley Duval ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Theo was fantastic with our 4yo son. We were very worried that his progress would fall off when we had to switch to remote sessions, but Theo kept our son happy and engaged through the screen. Highly highly recommend!
  • Avatar Samantha Packard ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    We've been working with Theo from Brooklyn Letters for close to 4 months now and the results are apparent; our daughter has vastly improved her speech in a relatively short amount of time. We make "Theo Day" a celebration … More in our house with pancakes for breakfast, and the enthusiasm is matched in the sessions. Theo is fun, patient, professional, and caring, and he gives us the tools to take the lessons beyond the session. Thank you Theo, and Brooklyn Letters, for helping our daughter express herself.
  • Avatar Travis Ricca ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    I worked with Alina to enhance my pronunciation, tone, and pacing while communicating socially and in a work environment. She was great to work with and clear about goals and learning objectives. The improvement from day 1 has been tremendous! … More
  • Avatar Enrico Bermudez ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    Cathy has been excellent with us and our son. We will sorely miss her. He has improved significantly with Cathy’s help. Cathy was a true partner with us, especially as we pursued additional help through our son’s school system.
  • Avatar Kayne Elisabeth Wilk ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We really loved working with Alina, she is so fantastic. Patient yet firm, and determined the best course of action very clearly and succintly for us. And it all transitioned so well to Zoom as well. I will definitely be back in touch for … More services for our other child after summer break!
  • Avatar Jen S ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Vera was amazing! My 11 yo daughter made progress so quickly and really looked forward to her sessions. She was kept motivated and engaged.
  • Avatar susie tofte ★★★★★ 3 years ago
    The work that Allison P. did with our daughter over the years has been invaluable to us. Our daughter had such a good relationship with Allison, and it allowed them to work really well together - even remotely these past 6 months. This … More year, Allison went above and beyond by helping us throughout the neuropsych eval we did, trying to re-open our daughter's IEP at her school, and eventually landing her at our chosen school. She was in contact with our daughter's teachers, with the neuropsychologist, and made herself available as a reference to speak on behalf of our daughter's learning differences.
    Allison stopped by our house last week to give our daughter cupcakes and say goodbye, and I literally cried with appreciation for what an amazing speech therapist she has been. She has been our daughter's biggest champion. The new families that she will work with this year are lucky to have her.
  • Avatar Alicia Perez-Katz ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Sydney was great! Our son was sad to end his sessions with her, which says a lot. We appreciated her honest assessment of his skill level, and he now has materials to self monitor and practice. Thank you!
  • Avatar Kristin Ames ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Our experience with Theo was terrific. Theo was great with my son. He developed a positive relationship with him based on sincerity, respect, trust and a deep personal connection. In their lessons, Theo was encouraging, creative and kind. … More He helped our son understand how to differentiate the sounds he made when he spoke, and gave him great exercises to practice every week between lessons. Our son was sorry to have the lessons come to an end, but recognized that Theo had helped him as much as possible and it was time for him to stop. Theo explained to him (and us) how to keep working to get the last 5%, and encouraged him to keep working on the exercises on his own. I have recommended Theo to another parent who noticed my son's improvement and inquired for her own son.
    We are all grateful to have gotten to know Theo, and we greatly appreciate all the work he did to help our son.
  • Avatar Aisha Holder ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    "I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Michelle Macroy-Higgins. We are extremely pleased with her work with our daughter. I was so grateful for my daughter to have a speech therapist who is a researcher (specialty in late … More talkers), graduate professor and practitioner. Her expertise was clearly evident in our conversations and work with our daughter. She was very responsive to my questions and often sent articles and other materials about language development that I found helpful. Thankfully, my daughter's speech improved tremendously. Michelle developed such a warm relationship with my daughter. My daughter was always excited to see Michelle and would greet her at the door with a big hug. Lastly, I would add that Michelle always demonstrated empathy with me as a mother who was initially worried about her daughter's language development. I could go on and on about how pleased we were with Michelle's work."
  • Avatar Andrea Peartree ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Theo is a wonderful Clinton Hill speech therapist. We were really pleased with him. Our son showed drastic improvement, not only in his speech but in his confidence.
  • Avatar mario costa ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    Alexa has been an enthusiastic, reliable, well prepared and caring teacher for our 6 year old daughter. She has been able to improve and increase our daughter's confidence lesson by lesson with patience and competence; through varied … More and productive didactic practice. Alexa has engaged our daughter in several activities that always kept her motivated and eager to learn literacy. My wife and I, both of us are educators, feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe Alexa's pedagogical skills. Alexa has had a big impact on our daughter literacy growth. Thank you Brooklyn Letters!
  • Avatar Lily Alt ★★★★★ 4 years ago
    We were absolutely DELIGHTED with Marsha's services. She was wonderful. We found her to be kind, fun, engaging, very knowledgeable. She provided us with clear instructions and additional written handouts each week. She engaged our … More son with different techniques and toys, and showed us how to use her techniques when we were interacting with him. I actually just texted her on Saturday - Our son finally said "more" - one of the target words we had been working on with her. It was a total joy to hear, and I had to share it with her - she wrote back immediately to congratulate us. I am so appreciative of her expertise, and wish we could have seen her for longer. I recommended her to another family in our neighborhood who is looking for a speech therapist.

LONG ISLAND READING FLUENCY TUTORING

Reading Fluency Tutoring

LONG ISLAND READING FLUENCY TUTORING

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Reading fluency tutoring helps children develop the ability to read accurately, smoothly, and with appropriate expression. Strong reading fluency supports comprehension, confidence, and long-term academic performance across all subjects.

We provide in-home reading fluency tutoring across Long Island, with remote options available when appropriate. Families in communities such as Muttontown, Old Westbury, Laurel Hollow, Brookville, Roslyn Estates, and surrounding Nassau and Suffolk County neighborhoods often seek support when reading development is not progressing as expected or when they want to build stronger literacy skills before challenges emerge.

We also offer reading fluency tutoring in NYC for students who need targeted support with reading speed, accuracy, expression, and overall fluency.

WE TRAVEL TO THE FOLLOWING LONG ISLAND NEIGHBORHOODS:
The reading and writing tutors we work with travel throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties such as Baldwin, Bellmore, Bethpage, Brookville , Carle Place, Cedarhurst, East Meadow, East Williston, Elmont, Farmingdale ,  Floral Park, Franklin Square, Freeport, Garden City, Garden City Park, Glen Cove, Glen Head, Great Neck,  Hempstead , Hewlett, Hicksville, Island Park , Inwood, Jericho, Lake Success, Lattingtown, Lawrence, Levittown, Long Beach, Lynbrook, Malverne, Manhasset, Manorhaven,  Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Merrick, Mill River , Mineola, Muttontown, New Hyde Park, North Bellmore, North Hempstead , North Massapequa, North Merrick, Oceanside, Old Westbury, Oyster Bay, Plainview, Plandome,  Port Washington, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Roslyn, Roslyn Heights , Sea Cliff, Seaford, Stewart Manor, Syosset, Uniondale, Valley Stream, Wantagh, West Hempstead, Westbury, Williston, Woodbury, and Woodmere. In Suffolk County, the towns include Amagansett, Babylon, Bayport, Blue Point, Bohemia, Brookhaven, Centereach, Deer Park, East Hampton, East Islip, Eastport, Farmingville, Greenport, Hauppauge, Huntington, Islip, Mattituck, Medford, Montauk, Nesconset, Northport, Oakdale, Patchogue, Port Jefferson, Port Jefferson Station, Riverhead, Sayville, Selden, Setauket, Shelter Island, Smithtown, South Setauket, Southampton, Southold, St. James, Westhampton Beach, West Islip, and West Sayville.
We also travel to Hamptons (summer speech language therapy)

Service Snapshot

Service: Reading Fluency Tutoring
Location: Long Island
Delivery: Primarily in-home, with remote options available
Student Type: Kindergarten through elementary students
Focus Areas: Reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, literacy development
Session Structure: One-on-one individualized instruction
Goal: Improve reading efficiency, confidence, and long-term literacy growth

Literacy Specialists

We travel to you and we also offer remote services. Our Literacy Specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. For families pursuing homeschooling for K–5 students, we offer personalized in-home or remote instruction tailored to each child’s learning style and needs.

Literacy Specialists

We travel to you and we also offer remote services. Our Literacy Specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. For families pursuing homeschooling for K–5 students, we offer personalized in-home or remote instruction tailored to each child’s learning style and needs.

Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets

What Reading Fluency Tutoring Is

Reading fluency is the bridge between word recognition and reading comprehension.

Reading fluency refers to a child’s ability to read accurately, at an appropriate pace, and with natural expression. When reading becomes more automatic, students can devote more attention to understanding and analyzing what they read.

Reading fluency tutoring may include:

  • Guided oral reading
  • Repeated reading practice
  • Vocabulary development
  • Reading comprehension support
  • Structured literacy techniques
  • Prosody and expression development

Many Long Island families begin support early rather than waiting for reading concerns to become more significant. Proactive support helps prevent gaps from developing.

When Families Seek This Support

Parents often begin searching for reading fluency tutoring when reading pace starts affecting comprehension or confidence.

Families commonly seek support when:

  • Reading sounds slow or effortful
  • A child understands stories when read aloud but struggles independently
  • Teachers identify reading fluency concerns
  • Students avoid reading activities
  • Reading demands increase in elementary school
  • Parents notice early signs of difficulty
  • Children are not progressing as expected

Many Long Island parents also seek support proactively. Families often seek to maintain strong academic progress over time rather than waiting for academic performance to decline.

Some students receiving reading fluency tutoring are already performing well academically but are ready for more advanced instruction and enrichment-focused support.

How Reading Fluency Tutoring Works

Individualized reading fluency instruction targets the specific skills limiting reading efficiency and comprehension.

Sessions typically begin with identifying current reading strengths and growth areas. Instruction is then tailored to the student’s reading profile.

A reading fluency tutor may focus on:

  • Accuracy and word recognition
  • Reading pace
  • Expression and phrasing
  • Vocabulary development
  • Comprehension integration
  • Grade-level text navigation

Because we provide in-home support throughout Long Island, instruction can be delivered in a familiar environment where students often feel more comfortable and engaged.

Working directly with families in Long Island homes also allows greater consistency between instruction and everyday reading habits.

Who Benefits From Reading Fluency Tutoring?

Reading fluency tutoring supports students across a wide range of reading profiles.

Children who may benefit include:

Early Concern Group

Students showing:

  • Early signs of difficulty
  • Slower reading development
  • Reading confidence concerns
  • Emerging comprehension challenges

Proactive Families

Students whose parents want:

  • Early support
  • Strong literacy foundations
  • Prevention of future reading gaps
  • Continued academic momentum

Advanced Learners

Students who:

  • Read accurately but need greater efficiency
  • Are ready for more advanced instruction
  • Need stronger comprehension of increasingly complex texts
  • Benefit from enrichment-focused literacy support

This three-audience approach reflects how many Long Island families make educational decisions—early, proactively, and with long-term academic goals in mind.

In-Home Reading Fluency Tutoring vs Online Tutoring

In-home reading fluency tutoring provides direct observation and individualized instruction within a student’s everyday learning environment.

Many Long Island families prefer in-home support because tutors can:

  • Observe reading habits directly
  • Build stronger engagement
  • Coordinate more easily with family routines
  • Create a consistent literacy environment

Remote sessions can also be effective when scheduling, travel, or student needs make virtual instruction more appropriate.

Both options provide individualized support, but many families appreciate the convenience and personal nature of instruction delivered in the home.

Why Long Island Families Choose Long Island Letters

Long Island Letters combines literacy expertise with individualized, in-home educational support.

Families choose Long Island Letters because we focus on:

  • Early literacy development
  • Structured reading instruction
  • Individualized support
  • Family collaboration
  • In-home service delivery
  • Long-term academic growth

Our approach supports reading development while helping children build the literacy skills necessary for classroom participation, academic confidence, and future learning success.

We regularly work with families throughout Long Island, including communities such as Old Westbury, Brookville, Laurel Hollow, Roslyn Estates, and surrounding Nassau and Suffolk County neighborhoods.

Training/Certifications
Training/Certifications
TESTIMONIALS

These sessions are going well. Alyssa demonstrates exceptional patience with our son and is getting results.
I am happy with the progression thus far.

~ Rey, parent of Long Island 6 year old

Wonderful Experience.
Suzanne worked with our 4-year old son for several months on fluency and pronunciation issues. He made remarkable progress with her and we were extremely pleased with Suzanne’s professionalism, warmth, knowledge, and attentiveness. Our son soon learned to love and look forward to her visits and she was extremely thorough in working with us to explain the process and go through our questions. We wholeheartedly recommend her.

- Rayna

"We are Very Lucky." Our son, Logan, has been working with Cathy for just over a year now. Logan's twin sister, Audrey, has had the pleasure of Cathy’s care a slightly shorter time than that. Through the last year, we have noticed a definite improvement in all areas of the twin’s communication skills including verbal comprehensibility, aural comprehension, and overall learning skills including reading. Some of this can be marked back to inherent developmental growth and change in schools, but a large part we believe to be due to Cathy's good work. The twins worked with another SLP for years and, although a wonderful person and therapist in her own right, her play-based approach often made improvement in the kids hard to gauge. Cathy's approach is much more traditionally pedagogic and started with her conducting many diagnostic tests to get a clearer baseline to read/picture of the kid's abilities and issues. From there, she developed a very well-reasoned course of therapy for both Audrey and Logan and they continue to benefit from Cathy's skills and experience. Beyond her obvious professional expertise, Cathy has proven to be a kind and caring therapist and has extended herself when asked to participate in team meetings with our son's school. Cathy has also referred us most recently to an OT that we are beyond happy with, further proving her commitment to the overall well-being of her students. In summary, we consider ourselves very lucky to be working with an SLP of Cathy's professional expertise and personal quality.

- Toni & Tim

Rachel has been an amazing tutor for my daughter
She established a close relationship with her and helped her to jump several reading levels. Thanks to Rachel, my daughter is now a confident reader! I am very happy that I reached out to you and I will certainly recommend Brooklyn Letters in the future.

- Joseph, father

It was great working with Brooklyn Letters. We contacted a number of tutors through
the service and ultimately found the one who best met the needs of our son.
Katie was terrific. We saw significant improvement in our son's reading skills,
and more importantly, saw his confidence blossom under her guidance.
Thank you Highly Katie and Brooklyn Letters.

- Elizabeth Crowell

Jill was absolutely wonderful! We all love her. She provided exactly the reading help
that our son needed and was a pleasure to work with. My son always looked forward
to his sessions with Jill. And Jill was really great at tag-teaming with my sister who did
activities/exercises that Jill recommended with him. After some months of working
with Jill, my son is now an avid confident reader. He reads on his own at home and
his school teachers report that he loves to read at school and is reading above grade level.
Mission accomplished! I would highly recommend Jill to anyone to provide remote services!

- Mel S.

Reading fluency—one of the Five Pillars of Reading—is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. It’s a vital skill that directly impacts reading comprehension. At Long Island Letters, independent providers support neurodivergent learners throughout the Long Island area. Educational specialists provide targeted fluency support designed for students with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other learning differences and learning disabilities. They use targeted, multisensory methods that help students become expressive, confident readers—minimizing decoding interruptions so they can fully engage with text meaning.

Fluency plays a key role in comprehension and is essential in keeping young learners motivated. When children are reading fluently, it frees up mental resources to allow them to improve their comprehension of what they are reading. People with dyslexia may struggle with reading fluency. Read this article to learn more about dyslexia, recognize the signs, impact, support, and accommodations, how to identify the indicators, and get a diagnosis, post-diagnosis steps, approaches, assistance, how to boost self-worth, and many more!

Reading fluency involves a blend of accuracy, speed, and expression (prosody). Achieving fluency stems from well-rounded oral and written language instruction, covering reading, writing, and spelling. When a student struggles with reading fluency, the intervention team, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs), must look closer to identify and address the specific factors affecting the student’s progress.

Many interventionists using programs like Orton-Gillingham assume that these methods effectively cover all language components. However, if both oral and written language elements are not properly addressed, students can reach a plateau in their progress, limiting their fluency in both reading and writing.

This is where our educational specialists come in. Licensed speech-language pathologists perform language assessments to uncover any underlying deficits and collaborate with other professionals to develop targeted strategies for improvement. By tackling these core issues, we can help students move toward true reading fluency.

Here’s a framework to understand the connection between fluency and reading comprehension.

Reading Fluency Tutoring
Read about 2021 Reading Model for Fluency, Comprehension, Self-Regulation, and Vocabulary.

How to Improve Reading Fluency

Reading fluency tutoring

Research has shown that students need frequent opportunities for substantial practice at their instructional reading level to bolster reading fluencyInstead of silent reading, a student must be given plenty of chances to read aloud as well as listen and observe fluent reading by a teacher, tutor, family member, or even peer. Learn how early literacy benefits from both print-to-speech and speech-to-print instruction, creating connections in the brain that link new knowledge about the alphabet to what children already know and are continuously learning about words.

Reading aloud allows students to receive feedback and provides them an opportunity to self-correct. This combination of consistent practice and regular monitoring is critical in promoting fluency.
It is also just as important to choose the appropriate text or reading material when trying to improve fluencySlower reading fluency rates are often the result of spending too much time decoding individual words. This can lead to not having enough time to understand a passage or text as a whole. Hence, it’s important to choose materials that are within the student’s independent reading levelThis means picking out books or texts that contain familiar words that the reader can decode with ease.
Once appropriate reading materials are chosen, a reading teacher or tutor will:

  • Provide and encourage opportunities for students to read and reread a wide range of stories or text.
  • Introduce and practice reading new or challenging words before allowing the student to read them on their own.
  • From time to time, monitor and time the student’s oral reading, taking note of reading rate and accuracy.
  • Model fluent reading and encourage students to reread the text on their own. Aside from demonstrating how fluent reading should be, this also shows students that a reader’s voice or intonation makes a difference in deriving meaning from written text.

Key Facts About Reading Fluency Tutoring

  • Reading fluency supports reading comprehension and academic learning.
  • Many children benefit from support before significant academic difficulties develop.
  • Reading fluency instruction can support both struggling readers and advanced readers.
  • In-home instruction allows tutors to work directly with families in Long Island homes.
  • Early literacy support often creates stronger long-term academic outcomes.

Reading Fluency Tutoring

We determine reading fluency by examining both reading speed and expression of the textVery fluent readers are able to read text automatically and without effortful decoding of letters to soundsChildren must build a strong decoding base as well as a foundation of sight words that are recognized automatically in order to increase their fluency rates.
Tutors may work on phrasing, intonation, and echoed and repeated readings. At Long Island Letters, our goal is to improve your child’s reading fluency with individualized lessons geared at boosting decoding skills. Educators we work with provide Orton-Gillingham and Wilson tutoring services to help your child become skilled readers. We offer doorstep or at-home and online tutoring.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is reading fluency?

Reading fluency is the ability to read accurately, smoothly, and with appropriate expression while maintaining understanding of the text.

When should a child receive reading fluency tutoring?

Many families begin support when teachers raise concerns, reading pace affects comprehension, or parents notice that literacy development is not progressing as expected.

Can advanced readers benefit from reading fluency tutoring?

Yes. Advanced readers may benefit from instruction focused on efficiency, comprehension, vocabulary development, and more sophisticated reading demands.

Is tutoring available in-home?

Yes. We provide in-home reading fluency tutoring throughout Long Island, with remote options available when appropriate.

Does reading fluency affect comprehension?

Yes. As reading becomes more automatic, students can devote greater attention to understanding and analyzing what they read.

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MEET THE LONG ISLAND LITERACY SPECIALISTS WHO TRAVEL TO YOUR HOME

Reading Fluency Tutoring
Michelle C.
M.S. Special Education
Reading Fluency Tutoring
Michelle S.
NYS Certified Early Childhood & Special Education Teacher, M.S Ed
Reading Fluency Tutoring
Sohayla
M.S. Elementary and Special Education
Reading Fluency Tutoring
Anastasiya K.
MA, NYS Certified (birth-grade 2) General and Special Education
Reading Fluency Tutoring
Giana M.
NYS Certified in Childhood Education and Special Education (1-6)

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