Anonymous
Post 03/31/2016 09:47     Subject: Re:Going rate for a reading tutor?
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Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I reached out to reading specialist and I offered $40. She either thought the rate was too low or just not very interested.

We ended up signing up for Kumon for reading and math for $250/month and DS has improved significantly. DS gets one on one teaching for 30 minutes twice per week. Their strategies seem to be working. I used to point at words, help sound out but it wasn't structured. Love the way his kumon books teach him step by step. EAch week he seems to be gaining more confidence and building on his skills. Good job, Kumon!


How old is your DS and how is he getting one on one tutoring at Kumon? I thought at Kumon kids worked in a group


DS just turned 7. I also thought that they worked in groups. DS usually is one on one. Only once has it been 2 kids to 1 teacher. DS still needs instructions read to him and teacher shows DS how to do the problems. Often the 30 min session becomes 45 minutes. I am very satisfied. Best of all, DS does not complain at all and listens obediently to his teachers. Much better than the struggles we had previously when DH and I tried to read a simple 15 page beginner reader book with him.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2016 06:30     Subject: Re:Going rate for a reading tutor?
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I reached out to reading specialist and I offered $40. She either thought the rate was too low or just not very interested.

We ended up signing up for Kumon for reading and math for $250/month and DS has improved significantly. DS gets one on one teaching for 30 minutes twice per week. Their strategies seem to be working. I used to point at words, help sound out but it wasn't structured. Love the way his kumon books teach him step by step. EAch week he seems to be gaining more confidence and building on his skills. Good job, Kumon!


How old is your DS and how is he getting one on one tutoring at Kumon? I thought at Kumon kids worked in a group
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 22:50     Subject: Re:Going rate for a reading tutor?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I reached out to reading specialist and I offered $40. She either thought the rate was too low or just not very interested.

We ended up signing up for Kumon for reading and math for $250/month and DS has improved significantly. DS gets one on one teaching for 30 minutes twice per week. Their strategies seem to be working. I used to point at words, help sound out but it wasn't structured. Love the way his kumon books teach him step by step. EAch week he seems to be gaining more confidence and building on his skills. Good job, Kumon!


You realize, right, that you are paying Kumon more than you offered the reading specialist. I'm not surprised she thought $40 was too low. When you calculate out the planning time and taxes, her take home amount would be closer to $20/hour.


I would have paid her $100 or whatever she wanted. She did reply once and asked how often we wanted her. I think I said twice per week for 1 hr each time. She thought 30 min would be more appropriate so she probably thought I would have paid her only $20. I would have paid her more but we never got a chance to discuss. I had no idea what the going rate was. Heck, I would have paid her $1000/wk if she could get my child motivated to read.

So glad we decided to try out Kumon. I am quite pleased.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 22:41     Subject: Re:Going rate for a reading tutor?
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I reached out to reading specialist and I offered $40. She either thought the rate was too low or just not very interested.

We ended up signing up for Kumon for reading and math for $250/month and DS has improved significantly. DS gets one on one teaching for 30 minutes twice per week. Their strategies seem to be working. I used to point at words, help sound out but it wasn't structured. Love the way his kumon books teach him step by step. EAch week he seems to be gaining more confidence and building on his skills. Good job, Kumon!


You realize, right, that you are paying Kumon more than you offered the reading specialist. I'm not surprised she thought $40 was too low. When you calculate out the planning time and taxes, her take home amount would be closer to $20/hour.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 22:32     Subject: Re:Going rate for a reading tutor?
I am the OP. I reached out to reading specialist and I offered $40. She either thought the rate was too low or just not very interested.

We ended up signing up for Kumon for reading and math for $250/month and DS has improved significantly. DS gets one on one teaching for 30 minutes twice per week. Their strategies seem to be working. I used to point at words, help sound out but it wasn't structured. Love the way his kumon books teach him step by step. EAch week he seems to be gaining more confidence and building on his skills. Good job, Kumon!
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 20:09     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
Teacher here and yes, of course I've heard of them. As a general classroom teacher I have not been formally trained in their entirety (which is a big problem with staff training), but I've used Orton-Gillingham type methods in my classroom and I currently use Logic of English to supplement my own kids education. Anyone with a MA in reading and literacy should be familiar with an explicit, sequential phonics and phonemic awareness program. It doesn't matter if you don't have a student with diagnosed dyslexia, about 30% of students need explicit and sequential phonics instruction to learn to read.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 19:06     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
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Anonymous wrote:I have 23 years teaching elementary students within FCPS. My MA is in reading and literacy. I don't tutor often, but $40/hr is what I would ask. Sometimes I find that an hour is too long for the little ones and adjust accordingly.


In which reading programs do you have certification?


Please clarify what you mean by "reading programs". Are you referring to things such as LLI, Literacy, Read Naturally, etc.?


Wilson, LMB, Barton, RAV-O


I am not cerified in any of those reading programs. Quite frankly, I don't know any of my colleagues who are cerified or even familiar with most of those.


They are some of leading programs for targeting the various forms of dyslexia. It concerns me that a teacher with an MA in reading and literacy is not familiar with them. It highlights the problems students with dyslexia have in this area.


Is your tutor currently a general ed classroom teacher?


The PP, who indicated that she was a teacher for 23 years with a MA in reading and literacy and a reading tutor, said she was not familiar with the programs mentioned. In addition, she stated incorrectly (and ignorantly) that dyslexia was a severe learning disability when the vast majority of people with dyslexia are in the mild- moderate range.

IME and unfortunately, this is typical in this area. The lack of knowledge about dyslexia in the schools here is astounding.


I am the one (a "he" BTW) who has been with FCPS for 23 years and has a MA in reading and literacy. I am a general education classroom teacher. I am not a reading specialist. I do not have the courses to be a reading specialist. I have never advertised myself as a reading tutor. I doubt if the reading specialist at my school is familiar with the programs you mentioned. Somebody else stated that dyslexia was a severe learning disability. That was not me.

As a general education teacher, it is true that I am not familiar with the programs you mentioned. I would bet that if you surveyed 100 classroom teachers, at last 95% would not be familiar or certified with those that you mentioned. I am familiar with Language, LLI, and Read Naturally.


I'm a general education teacher too (elementary) and I'm not familiar with these programs either.


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Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 14:54     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
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Anonymous wrote:As a former elementary teacher who is now a stay at home mom, it pains me to hear people who are paying $60-$110 an hour for a reading tutor. Take this advice and save yourself some major $$$. Depending on the age of your child work on starfall.com, spend a few days on each skill before moving on to the next. Once your kid is reading, get a subscription to raz-kids.com, your kid will take a test to be placed on the appropriate level. Have them listen to the story while following along the first day, and read the story the second. Along with this also by some leveled readers and have your child read at his/her appropriate level each day (with you by your child's side to clarify vocabulary or mistakes) Unless your child has true LD's this is really all you need.



ETA, even though I am a former teacher, I would feel guilty as hell charging such prices when I know it is such a simple thing for parents to do themselves.


I don't think you need to feel guilty if parents don't feel guilty outsourcing such a simple thing as you say.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 13:13     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
Anonymous wrote:As a former elementary teacher who is now a stay at home mom, it pains me to hear people who are paying $60-$110 an hour for a reading tutor. Take this advice and save yourself some major $$$. Depending on the age of your child work on starfall.com, spend a few days on each skill before moving on to the next. Once your kid is reading, get a subscription to raz-kids.com, your kid will take a test to be placed on the appropriate level. Have them listen to the story while following along the first day, and read the story the second. Along with this also by some leveled readers and have your child read at his/her appropriate level each day (with you by your child's side to clarify vocabulary or mistakes) Unless your child has true LD's this is really all you need.



ETA, even though I am a former teacher, I would feel guilty as hell charging such prices when I know it is such a simple thing for parents to do themselves.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 13:11     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
As a former elementary teacher who is now a stay at home mom, it pains me to hear people who are paying $60-$110 an hour for a reading tutor. Take this advice and save yourself some major $$$. Depending on the age of your child work on starfall.com, spend a few days on each skill before moving on to the next. Once your kid is reading, get a subscription to raz-kids.com, your kid will take a test to be placed on the appropriate level. Have them listen to the story while following along the first day, and read the story the second. Along with this also by some leveled readers and have your child read at his/her appropriate level each day (with you by your child's side to clarify vocabulary or mistakes) Unless your child has true LD's this is really all you need.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2016 13:05     Subject: Going rate for a reading tutor?
Do these tutors assign extra "homework" for your child to complete throughout the week, or does your child just work on extra reading 1x a week when with the tutor?

Also, do the tutors generally work on phonics/fluency or reading comprehension as well?