One-to-one reading intervention · online

Your kid isn't lazy. Reading just never got taught the way their brain needed it.

I'm a special education teacher with twenty-one years in the classroom. I work one-on-one with kids who have fallen behind in reading — from wherever you are.

Book a free 20-minute call

No charge, no pitch. We talk about your kid and I tell you honestly whether I can help.

If your child has an IEP or a diagnosis and you hold a state scholarship or education savings account, tutoring is usually an approved expense. How that works →

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If this sounds familiar

You pulled them out because school wasn't working. Now the reading is on you.

They're bright in every conversation, and then they hit a page and shut down.
You've bought three curricula. None of them stuck.
They guess at words from the first letter and the picture.
Reading time ends in tears — theirs, yours, or both.
Someone said dyslexia. Nobody told you what to actually do on Monday morning.
You're doing fine with everything else. This one subject is beating you.

None of that means you made the wrong call taking them out. It means reading is a specialist's job, and you were never supposed to have to do it alone.

How it works

One kid, one plan, twice a week.

1

We talk first — free

Twenty minutes. You tell me what you're seeing. I ask the questions a specialist asks. If I'm not the right help, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

2

I find out where the gap actually is

Not the grade level on a report. The specific skill that broke. Kids who struggle with reading are each stuck in a different place, and the plan is worthless until you know which one.

3

We meet twice a week, online

Live sessions, just your kid and me. You get a short note after each one — what we did, what moved, what to practise. No worksheets to grade. No curriculum for you to run.

See the whole method

Every kid is their own little puzzle. You struggle with this in reading, you struggle with that in reading — how do I solve it differently for each of you? That's the part I've loved for twenty-one years. Shaun Keller

What we actually read

Kids who say they hate reading will race through the story of the first people to stand on top of Everest.

I don't hand a twelve-year-old a picture book about a dog. We read true adventures: the two climbers who first reached the top of the world, the explorers who crossed the ice to the South Pole, the night the Berlin Wall came down and families walked through to hug each other.

The skills underneath are the same ones any reading program teaches — decoding, fluency, comprehension, stamina. The difference is your kid wants to know what happens next. That's not a trick. For a kid who has decided they're bad at reading, it's the whole thing.

A climber taking the final steps onto the summit of Island Peak, Nepal — Photo: Mountaineer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Who I work with

Mostly ages 8 to 15.

Homeschooled kids who are behind

Especially the ones who came out of a classroom already struggling, and the gap has kept widening since.

Kids with dyslexia and learning differences

Diagnosed or not. Special education is what I've done every day for two decades — this is the normal case for me, not the hard one.

Kids who've decided they're dumb

They're not. But they've believed it for years, and that has to come apart before the reading moves.

Families using a scholarship or ESA

If your child has an IEP or diagnosis and your state gives you an education account, one-to-one tutoring is normally an approved expense. I'll help you with the paperwork.

Parents who need an honest read

Sometimes the most useful hour is me telling you what you're dealing with and what it will actually take.

Start with a conversation.

Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. Tell me what you're seeing and I'll tell you straight whether I can help — and if I can't, who can.

Book a free 20-minute call