Play-Based Early Literacy Tutoring

Individualized & Play-Based Early Literacy Tutoring

Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Lessons Your Child Will LOVE! 

* Preschool 

* Kindergarden 

* 1st Grade

STEP 1: Intake Discussion With Parent

Parents fill out a form and share specific concerns with Miss Cherie. 

They provide any insights regarding specific target skills 

and other desired outcomes for the tutoring. 

They may also share any relevant documentation of challenges 

and/or academic goals outlined by teacher.

STEP 2: "Getting To Know You" Child, Identification Of Additional Goals, & 

Finalization Of A Cohesive Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)

This First Session Is Spent Exclusively On: 

1. Getting To Know Your Child - Miss Cherie will work on identifying your child's strengths, challenges, learning style, interests/motivators, and any other factors that will help her to better develop an individualized learning plan.

2. Syncing Up Goals - Miss Cherie will (likely) identify additional and foundational skills/goals and/or obstacles to target/overcome. These must then be synced up with the parents' goals/input to create a clear and cohesive "Individualized Learning Plan" (IFP). 

All goals must then be prioritized into a specific order, considering:

A. Your child's developmental readiness for each skill/goal;

B. Your child's individual interests/motivators;

C. The academic early literacy scope and sequence standards.

Then, Miss Cherie develops an individualized tutoring plan 

before the first tutoring session (in your home, or other agreed-upon location). 

STEP 3: The First Full Play-Based Tutoring Session 

Your child will explore a strategically-staged learning environment 

specifically tailored to help your child reach their specific goals. 

Miss Cherie will deliver individualized lesson using her time-tested 

"Fun-Etics" curriculum while capitalizing on your child's individual interests 

and their specific learning style, so they can have fun 

while they learn the way their unique brain was designed to learn! 

What To Expect During Each Tutoring Session / Miss Cherie Will Bring:

✔️ Unique Teaching Tools & Toys that best deliver the specific lessons. These may include teacher-made teaching tools that cater to your child's interests. 

✔️ Writing is also incorporated into every lesson as it teaches that letters and words carry meaning. This concept is called "Print Awareness." Even scribbling and invented spelling help children learn this critical foundational literacy concept that leads to learning how to read.

✔️ Music will be played in every session to help develop "Phonemic Awareness" (as well as other foundational literacy concepts). Phonemic Awareness is one of the most critical early literacy skills linked to: vocabulary acquisition, reading and spelling accuracy in and beyond 3rd Grade, and a lifelong love for reading. 

Music and Movement go together. Therefore, a secondary reason music will be played at every session is to support physical / kinesthetic lessons. (i.e. Dancing or forming our bodies like the letter shape or to a rhyming song.)

✔️ Sensory Experiences - Neurologically-regulating experiences help children to focus so they are alert and ready to learn. Often literacy enriching music is played during sensory experiences.

* RULE OF THUMB: "When hands are busy, ears are listening." 

* "DRESS FOR THE MESS":  (ie. Water play, Sand play, Play-Doh, Sensory bins of  beans or dry rice/other loose materials, trays of child-safe shaving cream, etc.). 

STEP 4: Continuous Parent-Teacher Feedback Loop

Subsequent Tutoring Sessions Targeting Adjusted Goals Are Informed By A Continuous Feedback Loop Between Parents & Miss Cherie Via AvPhone Call Between Each Session.

STEP 5: Review Of Goals Met

After The Completion Of The Final Session.

Miss Cherie's Proprietary "Fun-Etics!" curriculum was developed in 2002, 

...and has helped thousands of children overcome academic challenges.

The reason for her students' academic success is simple: Having studied child development, Miss Cherie recognizes that many children are simply not developmentally ready to "sit down and pay attention" for long, formal, and/or abstract lessons in Preschool, Kindergarten, and even in 1st Grade. 

She knows that young children in Preschool, Kindergarten and even in First Grade are still in what experts referred to as the "Pre-Operational" stage of development. In this phase of development, a young child still requires concrete learning experiences -- as opposed to abstract and rote learning experiences that the schools deliver. 

Miss Cherie also learned in her Early Childhood Education studies that forcing abstract concepts upon a child that is still in the Pre-Operational stage of development actually teaches children to dislike learning and form an unhealthy attitude about school and learning. So, to  help prevent this, she set out to provide alternative learning experiences for these children so they could succeed, despite this sometimes paralyzing barrier.

In essence, Miss Cherie allowed her students to develop their own curriculum. As she observed them playing, she put curriculum into their play-path, targeting their individual skill goals - and voila! Success! Children who had previous struglles learning actually LEARNED, and they learned FAST, and they learned how to LOVE LEARNING!  

Having also studied Social Sciences (Applied Behavioral Sciences), Miss Cherie also knows that early school success is directly correlated with later adult success, including improved job prospects, higher income, and homeownership.

Therefore, later, as a national trainer, Miss Cherie went on to teach hundreds of other Early Childhood teachers how to deliver individualized, hands-on, play-based, and developmentally appropriate lessons so that even more children in the Pre-Operational stage of development could successfully overcome their early academic struggles and form positive life-long attitudes about learning. 

Today, Miss Cherie resides in Oceanside, California, and brings her time-tested curriculum and her developmentally appropriate teaching approach to children in the San Diego area through individualized tutoring sessions.