Private Tutoring at Clairmont Advanced

Reach Goals Quickly

Thinking about private tutoring? At Clairmont Advanced, we’re here to help! We focus on making ELA and Math fun and understandable. Our teachers are top-notch, certified in New York, and trained in-house. What’s special about them? Well, they’re not just good at teaching. They’re great at understanding each student’s needs. So, if a topic seems hard, we find creative ways to make it clearer and easier.

Tailored ELA and Math Support

At Clairmont Advanced, every lesson is tailored just for your child. This way, they get the best support in ELA and Math. And the results? Kids find learning more enjoyable and feel more confident. Experience the unique benefits of private tutoring at Clairmont and see the magic for yourself!

Private Tutoring for PreK/Kindergarten
Children 4-6 Years Old

Active and Kinesthetic

At Clairmont Advanced, we believe that every moment holds a potential for learning – not just through iPads and worksheets, but by interacting with the wonder-filled world around us. Your child will engage with our passionate, skilled educators to foster crucial academic abilities.

Learning Made Fun

While we playfully boost essential skills through interactive games and activities, we also pause to greet the chirping bluebirds and playful chipmunks visiting our stunning education center. With us, private tutoring is a multi-sensory, kinesthetic adventure that blends academics with the joy of nature, fostering a love for learning that extends far beyond the classroom. When it comes to early childhood development, there are numerous areas that play a vital role in a child’s growth and learning.

Here are some key aspects that contribute to a child’s overall development

1. Developing Fine Motor Skills: Fine motor skills involve the coordination of small muscles and movements, such as using pencils, scissors, or building with blocks. These skills assist in tasks like buttoning clothes, tying shoelaces, and writing.
2. Mastering Letter and Number Recognition: Learning to recognize letters and numbers is an essential foundation for literacy and numeracy. It sets the stage for reading, writing, and basic arithmetic.
3. Understanding Units: Understanding units of measurement, such as length, weight, time, and volume, is crucial for real-world applications. It helps children make sense of their environment and engage in activities that involve estimation and comparison.
4. Enhancing Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. It aids in the development of reading and spelling skills.
5. Distinguishing Beginning, Middle, & End Sounds: Recognizing and distinguishing the different sounds at the beginning, middle, and end of words is an important aspect of phonological awareness. It helps children identify patterns and improve their vocabulary.
6. Identifying Rhyming Sounds: Rhyming is a fun and effective way to develop phonological awareness. It involves recognizing words that have similar ending sounds, which supports language development and phonics skills.
7. Counting and Adding Numbers: Numeracy skills, including counting and basic addition, lay the foundation for more advanced mathematical concepts. These skills help children understand quantity, patterns, and relationships between numbers.
8. Understanding Shapes: Learning about shapes is fundamental for spatial awareness, geometry, and visual perception. It promotes problem-solving abilities and lays the groundwork for recognizing and categorizing objects.
9. Exploring and Creating with Colors: Colors stimulate creativity, imagination, and cognitive development. Exploring colors allows children to express themselves, understand visual cues, and develop an appreciation for art and aesthetics.

Remember, this list is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a child’s development. There are countless opportunities for growth and learning which we uncover through every private tutoring session.

Private Tutoring for
1st Grade/2nd Grade
Children 6-8 Years Old

Tailored to Each Student

With Clairmont Advanced’s private tutoring, we hone in on your child’s unique needs, fostering the skills they require to excel academically. Our learning approach is fun and interactive – we delve into the world of games, engage with water balloon piñatas, explore art, and so much more.

Unparalleled Academic Production

Our private tutoring methodology is multisensory and kinesthetic; children learn by seeing, feeling, hearing, shaping, articulating, and most importantly, playing. On average, our private tutoring students advance two to three reading levels per month.

Under the guidance of our dedicated and experienced teachers, your child will cultivate vital academic abilities.

1. Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic awareness is an essential aspect of early literacy, which focuses on recognizing and manipulating individual sounds or phonemes in spoken words. Activities like rhyming, segmenting, and blending sounds can help develop this skill.
2. Sound/Letter Correlation: Sound/letter correlation is the ability to recognize the relationship between sounds and the letters that represent them. By understanding the connection between specific sounds and corresponding letters, children can improve their spelling and decoding skills.
3. Rhyming Word Families: Rhyming word families are groups of words that have the same ending sound but different beginning sounds. Learning about rhyming word families can help children recognize common patterns in words, which can facilitate reading and spelling.
4. Understanding Phonics: Phonics is the method used to teach the relationship between letters and their sounds. Understanding phonics can greatly improve reading fluency and comprehension by equipping children with the skills to decode unfamiliar words.
5. Understanding Sight Words: Sight words are commonly used words that children are encouraged to recognize instantly, without needing to decode them. By mastering sight words, children can develop reading comprehension skills and increase their reading speed.
6. Developing Reading Comprehension Skills: Developing reading comprehension skills involves understanding the meaning of text, making connections, and inferencing. By practicing strategies such as summarizing, questioning, and visualizing, children can improve their ability to understand and engage with what they read.
7. Mastering Lowercase Letters: Mastering lowercase letters is an important step in early literacy. By recognizing and writing lowercase letters accurately, children can improve their reading and writing skills.
8. Correcting Letter Reversals: Letter reversal refers to the common mistake of writing letters backwards, such as confusing “b” with “d”. By practicing activities that target letter reversal, children can overcome this challenge and improve their handwriting and reading abilities.
9. Constructing Sentences: Constructing sentences involves understanding sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation. By developing the ability to write clear and coherent sentences, children can improve their overall writing skills and communication.
10. Adding/Subtracting Numbers Between 0-100: Adding and subtracting numbers between 0-100 is an essential math skill for young learners. By practicing basic addition and subtraction, children can develop their number sense and build a strong foundation for more complex math concepts.
11. Mastering Skip Counting: Mastering skip counting involves counting by a specific number other than one. By learning to skip count, children can develop strong number patterns and mental math skills.
12. Improving Handwriting Skills, Penmanship, and Paper Positioning: Improving handwriting skills, penmanship, and paper positioning is important for legibility and neatness in written work. By practicing proper letter formation and posture, children can enhance their writing abilities.
13. Constructing 2D Shapes: Constructing 2D shapes involves identifying, naming, and creating geometric shapes such as squares, triangles, and circles. By exploring 2D shapes, children can develop spatial awareness and geometric reasoning.
14. Recognizing 3D Shapes: Recognizing 3D shapes involves identifying and naming three-dimensional objects such as cubes, spheres, and cylinders. By understanding the characteristics of 3D shapes, children can enhance their understanding of spatial relationships.

These are just a few examples of the wide range of skills and concepts that can be addressed through educational activities at Clairmont Advanced. With consistent practice and support, children can develop their understanding and proficiency in these areas and many more.

At Clairmont Advanced Education Center, we transform struggling readers into confident ones. Let’s empower your child’s academic journey today with private tutoring.

Private Tutoring for
3rd Grade – 5th Grade
Children 8-11 Years Old

NYS Certified and Licensed Teachers

At Clairmont Advanced Education Center, situated amidst the scenic surroundings of Irvington, NY, we provide personalized private tutoring delivered by certified teachers who are true subject matter experts. We excel at sparking interest in students, transforming topics they once found challenging into areas they enjoy exploring.

For students aged 8-10, we incorporate fun, engaging, and multi-sensory games and activities, creating an exciting learning atmosphere that enhances their grasp of key academic concepts.

Our skilled and compassionate private tutoring educators focus on building essential academic skills.

1. Refining reading comprehension and strategies: This focuses on improving the ability to understand and interpret written text. It encompasses skills such as active reading, identifying main ideas, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.
2. Expanding phonics and sight words knowledge: Phonics involves teaching the relationship between sounds and letters, while sight words refer to high-frequency words that are recognized instantly. Both help improve reading fluency and word recognition.
3. Enhancing sentence construction and basic paragraph formulation: This emphasizes the development of clear and coherent writing. Students learn about sentence structure, grammar rules, and transitioning between sentences to compose well-structured paragraphs.
4. Familiarizing with spelling rules and cursive writing: Students explore spelling rules, learn about different word patterns and spelling strategies. Additionally, cursive writing practice helps with fine motor skills and legible handwriting.
5. Developing word problem-solving techniques: This focuses on equipping students with the skills to analyze and solve mathematical word problems effectively. It includes understanding problem structures, identifying relevant information, and choosing appropriate problem-solving strategies.
6. Mastering mathematical operations, times tables, and multiplication facts: This involves a thorough understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students learn to apply these operations accurately and efficiently, as well as memorize essential multiplication facts and times tables.
7. Introducing basic test-taking strategies: This portion of the curriculum helps students develop effective test-taking skills, including time management, understanding instructions, and strategies for multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions.
8. Strengthening number sense, place value, and understanding of fractions and decimals: This area concentrates on building a solid foundation in understanding numbers, including their magnitude and relationships. Students learn about place value, comparing and ordering numbers, and working with fractions and decimals.

Come discover the difference at Clairmont, where we turn learning struggles into academic successes.

Private Tutoring Price: $125

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