Welcome to Blooming Minds Tutoring

At Blooming Minds Tutoring, we provide:

  • One-on-one attention from a skilled tutor specializing in the coursework.

  • Simplified explanations to make challenging subjects more manageable.

  • Customized learning plans and engaging activities to aid in catching up.

  • Lessons that take into consideration your student’s unique learning style and needs.

  • Immediate, encouraging feedback to foster positive learning experiences.

  • Regular updates for parents on their child's academic progress and overall development, ensuring that they are always informed and engaged in their learning journey.

Reading and Spelling Tutoring

  • As recommended by the National Reading Panel, significant emphasis on the five pillars of reading instruction including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, comprehension, and fluency.

  • Structured phonics-based instruction that is systematic, explicit, and coupled with multisensory techniques to enhance learning.

  • Comprehension taught through Close Reading leading to a more enriched and insightful interpretation of the text.

  • Emphasis on a variety of spelling patterns and morphology to increase spelling accuracy and word understanding.

  • The National Reading Panel found that certain instructional methods are better than others, and that many of the more effective methods are ready for implementation in the classroom. To become good readers, children must develop:

    • Phonemic awareness

    • Phonics skills

    • The ability to read words in text in an accurate and fluent manner

    • The ability to apply comprehension strategies consciously and deliberately as they read

Writing Tutoring

  • Sequential learning from sentences to full compositions.

  • Grammar instruction taught within context of writing.

  • Weaving reading and writing skills together through content.

  • Increases oral language, background knowledge, and organizational skills.

  • Use of the evidence based and highly effective Hochman Method. See the Hochman Method six principles below.

    • Students need explicit instruction in writing, beginning in the early elementary grades.

    • Sentences are the building blocks of all writing.

    • When embedded in the content of the curriculum, writing instruction is a powerful teaching tool.

    • The content of the curriculum drives the rigor of the writing activities.

    • Grammar is best taught in the context of student writing.

    • The two most important phases of the writing process are planning and revising.

Math Tutoring

  • Building math foundational concepts while giving a special focus to math vocabulary.

  • Emphasis on providing hands-on practice opportunities, utilizing manipulatives, and incorporating game-based learning strategies.

  • Engaging in conceptual understanding activities to Understand the "Why" behind math concepts.

Specialized Learning Services

Support for Students with Special Learning Needs:

  • Reading and Writing Disabilities

  • Difficulty with Attention

  • Gifted and Talented Students

  • English as a Second Language

  • Developmental and Cognitive Delays

  • IEP, Specific Diagnosis, and Accommodations

Support for Students with Specific Learning Needs:

  • Test Prep and Practice

  • Developing Notetaking Skills

  • Increasing Metacognition Skills

  • Practicing Executive Functioning Skills