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.
Build your child's confidence and maximise his/her progress!
Tutoring
Specialist English Tuition offered for every Key Stage!
Whether it's handwriting practice, before starting secondary school, or swatting up on your grammar or literacy (before an exam), I am available to discuss any request.
With a..
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Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (with honors)
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Postgraduate Certificate in Children's Literature
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Postgraduate Diploma in English and Language in Education
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Master of Arts in Education (with an interest in e-learning)
I have the ability to confidently raise your child's academic achievement in Language or Literature - or even both! I've also taught GCSE and A Level through a multitude of exam boards including AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Cambridge International Examinations and WJEC.
Language
Common Entrance Preparation
Literacy
Literature
• Sentence construction including correct connective and comma usage
• Structure including developing paragraphing
• Vocabulary including dictionary work
• Spelling including the explicit teaching of identifying common letter strings and how to apply the correct rules.
• Grammar
• William Shakespeare including Othello, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III
• Modern Poetry including Carol Ann Duffy , Simon Armitage, Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke.
• Pre-1914 Literature including Dickens, Defoe, Eliot, Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Austen, Swift, Conrad, Twain and Shelley
• Happy to teach contemporary children's literature such as novels by Alan Gibbons, David Almond, Gillian Cross, John Boyne, Louis Sachar and Malorie Blackman.
Happy to help with the following:
• Speaking and Listening Assessments including Presenting
• How to Argue, Persuade and Advise in Writing
• How to Inform, Explain or Describe in Writing
• How to Develop your Quoting Framework (P/E/E/D) for Analysing Non-Fiction Texts e.g. Newspapers and Advertisements
• How to develop your Presentational Devices (e.g. how to analyse the presentation of a text).
Discrete Tutorials can be delivered on the following topics:
• Creative Writing under timed conditions
• Comprehension including quotation, reference to the text and how to deduce from an extract
• Grammar and how to answer isolated grammar questions
• Verbal Reasoning including decoding and ordering skills
• Non-Verbal Reasoning which encompasses all types of patterns and how to read these.