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Reading is an imperative skill that is the foundation of success in school and in life. How can your child solve a math problem if they cannot read and understand it? How can your child choose their favourite brand or flavour of cereal if they cannot read the box? Reading is an involved process with 5 components:

• Phonics
• Phonemic Awareness
• Vocabulary
• Fluency
• Reading Comprehension

Each builds from the previous and each component is imperative to fulfill the entire experience of reading. Star Students In-Home Tutoring Reading Program works through these components in conjunction with the four strands of the reading curriculum to develop strong, successful readers. The provincial reading curriculum to grade 8 has 4 strands, each with its own set of skills:

1. Reading for Meaning
2. Understanding form and Style
3. Reading with Fluency
4. Reflecting on Reading Skills and Strategies

Star Students In-Home Tutoring will pre-assess your child in all 4 areas, covering each skill therein to ensure we uncover the exact learning opportunities that your child exposes. This allows Star Students In-Home Tutoring to provide a very detailed program that directly relates to your child and what is being taught in your child’s classroom. Star Students In-Home Tutoring is Canadian, and we follow the provincial curriculum as in your child’s school. Please Contact Us. We will be more than happy to provide a complimentary consultation and discuss with you how Star Students In-Home Tutoring Reading Program will develop your child into a high level reader, developing their reading and comprehension skills and guiding them to become critical thinkers and maybe even little bookworms.

Writing is an important form of communication. Writing is an expression of thoughts. Writing needs to engage the reader to the end. Writing is a process that requires things to happen before, during and after. Star Students In-Home Tutoring will take each child through the writing process which contains 5 essential steps:

• Pre-writing
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Each step of the writing process must be conducted in order to create a written piece that easily communicates to the audience the writer’s intended message. And correct grammar plays an integral role in good writing and so too in Star Students In-Home Tutoring writing program. The provincial writing curriculum to grade 8 has 4 strands each with its own set of skills:

1. Developing and Organizing Content
2. Using Knowledge of form and Style in Writing
3. Applying Knowledge of Language Conventions and Presenting Written Work Effectively
4. Reflecting on Writing Skills and Strategies

Star Students In-Home Tutoring will pre-assess your child in all 4 areas, covering each skill therein to ensure we uncover the exact learning opportunities that your child exposes. This allows Star Students In-Home Tutoring to provide a very detailed program that directly relates to your child and what is being taught in your child’s classroom. We are Canadian, and we follow the provincial curriculum as in your child’s school. Please Contact Us. We will be more than happy to provide a complimentary consultation and discuss with you how Star Students In-Home Tutoring Writing Program will develop your child into a high level writer, developing their writing skills and guiding them to become advanced, creative writers.

Math we may not realize is everywhere. Jenny has 8 candies but her mother told her to give 1/2 of them to her friends so how many candies does she need to give away? Louis has $3.50 and really wants that puzzle book but it costs $4.25 so how much more money does he need to purchase the puzzle book? Math happens in real life when kids may not realize. The basics are crucial foundations for basic math needs in the world and to be used as a foundation for more complex maths and sciences in high school. If your child is expressing the desire to become an astronomer, meteorologist, animator, game designer, sports announcer, pilot or even a roller coaster designer – they all require math skills and more complex math skills, that come from the basic foundations of math as taught in the elementary and intermediate school years. The provincial math curriculum to grade 8 undertakes 5 strands, each with its own set of skills:

1. Number Sense and Numeration
2. Measurement
3. Geometry and Spatial Sense
4. Patterning and Algebra
5. Data Management and Probability

Star Students In-Home Tutoring will pre-assess your child in all 5 areas, covering each skill therein to ensure we uncover the exact learning opportunities that your child exposes. This allows Star Students In-Home Tutoring to provide a very detailed program that directly relates to your child and what is being taught in your child’s classroom. We are Canadian, and we follow the provincial curriculum as in your child’s school. Please Contact us. We will be more than happy to provide a complimentary consultation and discuss with you how Star Students In-Home Tutoring Math Program will develop your child into math warriors, developing your child’s math skills and becoming independent learners and thinkers.