Overview
Hill Tutoring serves families across the region with both individual tutoring and small-group classes that are built upon research, individualized instruction, and successful teaching techniques.
Throughout the year we offer tutoring in Reading, Writing, Math, and Executive Function Skills. Once we receive your tutoring application, we provide a customized match with a tutor who best meets your child’s specific educational and scheduling needs. Your child meets with the same tutor each session, ensuring consistent instruction and fostering a strong relationship with each family. Hill Tutors enthusiastically work toward the goal of helping each student reach his or her full potential.
While no diagnosis is required for Hill Tutoring, students enrolled often have a diagnosis of attention deficit disorders or specific learning differences in reading, writing, and math. Our program is not designed to support students with persistent or primary emotional or behavioral needs.
Breaking Down the Hill Methodology
Hill’s Orton-Gillingham based reading methodology teaches core reading skills from the basics of identifying letters and initial sounds to fluently reading and comprehending texts with multi-syllabic words. Skills are taught and reinforced through 6 components:
Drill, Phonological Awareness, Word Attack, Fluency, Vocabulary, & Comprehension
Through these components, students learn key reading skills, including:
- Learning letters, sounds, syllables, and rhyming
- Decoding words through phonics rules
- Reading fluently with increased speed, accuracy, and proper expression
- Expanding vocabulary knowledge and strategies to learn the meaning of new words
- Applying decoding and fluency skills to texts
- Processing texts for understanding and application to prior knowledge
Hill’s Orton-Gillingham based writing methodology teaches core writing skills from the basics of writing initial letters sounds to organizing and writing multi-paragraph essays. Skills are taught and reinforced through 5 components:
Drill, Oral & Written Spelling, Copying/Dictation, Handwriting, & Written Composition
Through these components, students learn key skills, including:
- Breaking spelling words into parts orally to help associate the sounds with letters
- Learning to spell words from phonetic and sight word lists
- Increasing speed and accuracy with notetaking
- Strengthening capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and proofreading skills
- Improving letter formation, reduce reversals, and correct word spacing
- Developing writing skills through an emphasis on breaking down the writing process and supporting students through each stage
Hill’s math methodology teaches core math skills from the basics of identifying numbers and counting to multi-step problems. Skills are taught and reinforced through 6 components:
Fluency, Number Sense, Review, Problem Solving, Curriculum, & Reflection
Through these components, students learn key mathematical skills, including:
- Accessing math facts fluently through recall or learned strategies
- Understanding relationships between numbers
- Thinking flexibly about numbers and using prior knowledge to solve problems
- Learning strategies for solving word problems
- Using a CRA approach to learning mathematical concepts:
- Concrete: hands-on learning with manipulatives
- Representational: using visuals to “see” the math
- Abstract: symbolic stage utilizing numbers and symbols
Hill’s executive function methodology provides direct instruction and application of strategies to help students become independent learners, from organizing their materials to being ready for classroom tests.
Skills are taught and reinforced using an understand purpose, model, practice, and apply process. Students learn key study skills and strategies, including:
- Organization of materials and workspace, and homework planning
- Time management for completing homework, test preparation, and long-term projects
- Intentional focusing and investment strategies
- Strategies to engage in tasks and the difference between motivation and self-discipline
- Following directions and self-advocacy
- Processing and retaining new information
About Hill Tutors
Hill Tutors are highly-trained in Hill Methodology and other research-based strategies. Hill Tutors are highly experienced, averaging 17 years in education and 5 years as a Hill Tutor, and are ready to serve students in the subjects of reading, writing, math, and executive function skills.
Tutoring Spotlights
Our tutor is amazing. She’s patient, kind, empathetic, professional and an all-around superstar. She works with my son’s strengths and helps him work through his struggles. She encourages him and pushes him just the right amount.
Thanks to generous donors, Hill has provided both individual and small group tutoring for Boys & Girls Club students in need of additional academic support.
The methods Hill uses are so effective, and the support that you give helped her feel more confident where before she was feeling so frustrated about school.
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