...I do a great deal of 'chunking' in my tutoring, breaking down the essentials of an assignment, building a foundational base of knowledge and then have the student scale that knowledge into subject matter mastery. I have a wide ranging background and educational experience. I hold masters' degrees in communication and library science and doctorate in education. (read more)
...The easiest unit is a word, more difficult is a syllable, and most difficult is hearing individual sounds or phonemes. Before even working with letters per se, we work on breaking words into individual sounds, blending sounds together into words, rhyming and manipulating sounds in several other ... (read more)