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Ashley tutors in Plainfield, NJ

Ashley S.

Private tutor in Plainfield, NJ

Education

William Paterson University

Experience

Teaching Experience: Small group learning with teacher to student ratio 1:3 • English/Language Arts, grades Pre-K-3rd • English as a Second Language, grades Pre-K-1st Reading and Writing Foundational Skills with Common Core State Standards SWBAT: • Demonstrate basic motor skills, in including colors, shapes, senses, categorization, same/different, tall/short, big/small, body parts, patterns • Recall and recite the alphabet in sequential order; match and label upper- and lowercase letters • Demonstrate foundations of letter writing • Exhibits that text is read from top to bottom, left to right, page by page, and that words are separated by spaces in print • Determine that words are broken up by syllables, and sounds (phonemes), in which a student counts, blends, or segments syllables in spoken words • Demonstrates how to blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words to recognize and produce rhyming words • Use lists of high frequency/sight words for students grade level • Interprets leveled reading text, where student applies grade-level phonics and word analysis skills for decoding words Speaking and Listening of the English Language with Common Core State Standards SWBAT: • Demonstrates agreed-upon rules for discussions of grade appropriate topics with peers and adults in small or large groups (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about topics and texts). • Confirms understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood • Describes familiar people, places, things, and events when presenting knowledge and ideas • Provides drawings, or other visual displays of descriptions to provide additional details Literacy Concepts of Reading; Literature and Informational Text with Common Core State Standards SWBAT: • Asks and answers questions, such as who, what, where, when, why and how to demonstrate key details in a text • Analyze text to identify main idea, or retell familiar stories, including key details and how they support the main idea • Use illustrations to identify story elements of a text (e.g., character, settings, and major events in a story), • Describe characters in a story (e.g., traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events • Identify to describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text • Defines the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action • Select the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe • Discuss how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text • Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic • Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers Literacy Concepts of Language and Writing with Common Core State Standards SWBAT: • Demonstrates command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking • Print many upper- and lowercase letters • Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is, My favorite character is, or My favorite part is…). • Provides reasons that support the opinion, with linking words or phrases (e.g., because, since, for example) • Use high frequency/sight words, occurring nouns (singular, plural, common, proper, possessive, pronouns), verbs, and adjectives, relating them to their opposites (antonyms) • Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word • Demonstrate how to use a dictionary, or thesaurus for vocabulary acquisition of unknown words, pronunciations, parts of speech, synonyms, and antonyms, along with its headings, tables of contents, glossaries, to locate information • Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities • Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meaning • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing • Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure • Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure • Collaborate with peers to strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and publishing • With collaboration and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) • Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences

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Saturday after 12 Noon

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Up to 5 minutes away for no additional charge

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Currently waiting acceptance to obtain Master's Degree in Elementary Education.

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