Specialist English Tutor
Specialist English Tutor available for private tuition for primary (KS2), secondary (incl. KS3), GCSE and A Level. Subjects include Literacy, Literature, Linguistics, Language, Media Studies, Theatre Studies, Film Studies and Common Entrance Preparation incl. the 11+. I also have experience of the international qualifications.
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Higher Test Scores!
It is my sincere belief that every student is capable of greatness. Sometimes, however, young people need a chance to recognise and demonstrate their talents. Often tutoring is about confidence building; it allows the tutee to recognise his or her own skills set and put this into practise.
Differentiation Shouldn't be Difficult
I work closely with parents and the tutee's class teacher (if required) in order to offer a rich and diverse curriculum which extends the tutee's learning experience outside of school. I often act on advice from a recent school report, teacher correspondence as well as information gathered from recent parental consultations. In addition, I appreciate that your child will have other commitments outside school. I'm willing to work flexibility around these commitments.
Personalising Your Child's Learning is Paramount!
Common Entrance Preparation....My Speciality!
I have a personalised approach to tutoring. My aim is to develop a rapport with the learner, in order to gain an insight into their personal goals and achievements. This helps me to identify any weaknesses as well as build on the tutee's strengths. I am very exam practice based, teaching core English grammar skills through comprehension tasks. My focus is always on the child's development and improvement, constantly striving for success.
We live in an extremely competitive world and I often admire supportive parents who are willing to make their child's dream a success. To this end, I offer support with common entrance preparation including the 11+ for top local grammar schools such as Reading School and Kendrick Grammar. I also provide tutorials in how to tackle the Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning Papers; for selective local independent schools. In addition, I can advise of the common entrance process for both the 13+ and Sixth Form.
Recent Experience of Course Syllabi and Course Curricular:
iAS English Literature
(under EdexCel)
Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Poems of the Decade anthology, Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
iGCSE English Literature (EdexCel)
​William Shakespeare's Macbeth, J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play adaptation) and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
iGCSE English Language (EdexCel)
​iGCSE English Language Anthology (for fiction and non-fiction), Narrative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Transactional Writing as well as the mechanics of writing (e.g. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)
iA Level English Language (EdexCel)
​David Crystal's work on Global Englishes as well as the death of languages; Context and Identity incl. gender equality, children in need, climate change and global activism; Language in Transition incl. Creole Languages associated with syntax, morphology and phonetics.
Testimonials
Jessica is a great tutor, highly professional, reliable and results driven. I would recommend her to anyone who wish to achieve excellent results.
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Valentina Palmadori (MD of CV Tutor)
Just a brief email to mention again how engaging and well-structured the sessions were at Heathrow last night. All the students were learning and developing their understanding of the subjects taught. Teachitright is very fortunate to have superb tutors who deliver the 11+ programme. To ensure we maintain a high level of teaching across the company I wondered if at our next training day (twilight session) you might be interested in modelling a session incorporating ICT and how to keep all pupils on task)?
Chris Pearse (Director of Teachitright Ltd)
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Jessica Goddard (née Selwood) is a dedicated, passionate, enthusiastic, warm qualified tutor in a number of areas of tuition: 11+ and 13+ preparation, KS2 and KS3 English, English language and literature iGCSE, GCSE and GCE andDrama theory and Religious education. Jessica tailors her methods to her pupils needs, thus engaging them and this is the reason for her high success rate.
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Abosede Ochieng (Specialist Science Teacher)
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I really enjoyed the techniques and methods Jessica used when she was teaching me. Her techniques helped me understand the information better. I loved her motivational spirit which encouraged me every step to try my best for my exams. I admire her use of words when she explains and her explanations were amazing. I rate her for all the sources she has inside her pocket which shared with me and it helped me a lot for my exams.
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Anika Zarin
Previous A Level Religious Studies and Sociology Tutee
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Anika is now an undergraduate BSc Mathematics student at Kingston University. She is also now a keen public speaker.
I have been really pleased with Jessica, she continued to be very enthusiastic, explained the texts clearly and gave extra information that had not been given in school and my daughter was able to use in the exam [and] although the course was new, Jessica had found multiple texts and made her own questions similar to the sample papers for the exam. In addition, extra resources for poetry were used to cover analysis, history and meaning of each poem. Jessica had covered all the poems with [my daughter] and helped [her] to make the connections needed for the examination. Jessica made English more engaging and pinpointed the specific needs for [my daughter] and how to increase [her] grades, whilst making the tutorials interesting […] Jessica [also] suggested and offered extended reading that would help with the historical context element of the literature exam […] Despite the course being new, Jessica had clearly researched what was needed and how [she] was to achieve the higher grades. Feedback was given after every homework task or other work […] Jessica also knew the previous examination structure for [the] exam board and transferred her knowledge with the new specification to assist [my daughter] throughout.
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Mrs Yvonne Jessop
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Yvonne’s daughter achieved two Level 8s in GCSE English Literature and Language, based on her exams in the Summer of 2017.
Yvonne’s daughter is now pursuing her A Levels, specialising in Biology and Chemistry, at Kendrick School (situated within Reading, Berkshire)