Tutoring
Dyslexia Solutions of Colorado offers one-on-one tutoring tailored to your child’s specific needs. We work with individuals ages 5-adult and meet 2 or more times a week. Our tutors are available to meet with your child virtually and in-person.
At Dyslexia Solutions of Colorado, LLC all of our tutors are trained in the Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI) approach. After years of using the Orton-Gillingham method, we made the switch to EBLI because we saw how much faster students were gaining confidence and skills.
In the past, students often needed 18 months to three years of tutoring. With EBLI, many students show meaningful progress in just six months, and most graduate from tutoring within a year.
EBLI is a structured, and integrated approach to teaching reading and spelling, grounded in how the brain learns written language. Rather than teaching skills in isolation, each lesson weaves together multiple components of reading in each activity. This allows students to make progress faster and is more meaningful to students. The result is more than just improved skills – students become accurate, confident readers.
From the start, students learn to read longer, multi-syllable words and work with engaging, real-world texts like nonfiction articles and novels, helping build both skill and interest in reading.
EBLI Instruction
Students quickly learn that the same sound can be represented by multiple spellings. For example, the sound /a/ can be spelled in many ways: a as in gate, ai as in pain, ay as in stay, ey as in grey, ea as in great, and eigh as in weight.
They also learn the reverse—that a single spelling can represent different sounds. For example, the letter y can represent /y/ as in year, /e/ as in any, /i/ as in cry, or /i/ as in gym.
Instead of relying on memorizing rules with many exceptions, students develop flexibility by recognizing patterns in where different spellings appear within words. For example, ti often represents the sound /sh/ towards the end of longer words such as position, speculation, and creation.
You will begin to notice changes such as:
- Improved spelling
- Increased willingness to read aloud
- Better handwriting
- Improvement in grades
- Fewer behavior problems in school and at home
- Rising self-confidence
- Actual excitement about going to school
In a typical tutoring session your child will:
- Build phoneme awareness by learning to hear and identify the individual sounds in words.
- Connect sounds to letters through sound-to-letter mapping, strengthening reading and spelling skills.
- Practice guided reading using strategies that support accurate decoding and comprehension.
- Develop spelling skills by applying sound patterns and spelling rules.
- Expand vocabulary by learning and discussing new words in context.
- Improve reading fluency through structured practice that builds confidence and smoother reading.
- Review and reinforce skills so previously learned concepts become automatic and lasting.
