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QUEENS ORTON-GILLINGHAM TUTORS
QUEENS, NYC ORTON-GILLINGHAM TUTORS
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WE TRAVEL TO YOU THROUGHOUT QUEENS:
Astoria, Auburndale, Bayside, Bayswater, Beechhurst, Belle Harbor, Bellerose, Breezy Point, Briarwood, Cambria Heights, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, East Elmhurst, Edgemere, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway, Floral Park, Flushing, Forest Hills, Forest Park, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Hamilton Beach, Hillcrest, Hollis, Hollis Hills, Holliswood, Howard Beach, Hunters Point, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, Laurelton, Lefrak City, Lindenwood, Little Neck, Long Island City, Malba, Maspeth, Meadowmere, Middle Village, Neponsit, North Corona, Oakland Gardens, Ozone Park, Pomonok, Queens Village, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Rockaway Park, Rosedale, Roxbury, South Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens, Steinway, Sunnyside, Utopia, Whitestone, Willets Point, Woodhaven, Woodside.
Literacy Specialists
Reading and writing specialists travel throughout Queens. Reading and writing specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
What This Service Is
Orton-Gillingham tutoring in Queens provides structured, multisensory reading and spelling instruction tailored to each child’s current skills and academic goals.
Queens Letters provides in-home Orton-Gillingham tutoring throughout Queens, with remote options available when appropriate. Structured instruction can support children showing early signs of reading difficulty, families starting early to prevent gaps, and advanced learners ready for more sophisticated literacy instruction.
Orton-Gillingham develops reading and spelling through explicit, sequential teaching of phonemic awareness, sound-symbol relationships, decoding, encoding, and language patterns. Instruction is individualized so children can strengthen foundational skills while continuing to progress within their school curriculum.
Many Queens families begin support early rather than waiting. Families often seek to maintain strong academic progress over time, particularly as literacy expectations increase in elementary school.
Queens Letters focuses on speech language, literacy, and math intervention that is proactive, early, and enrichment oriented academic and speech language support.
When Families Seek This Support
Queens families seek Orton-Gillingham support for early reading concerns, proactive skill development, and continued literacy growth.
Families may begin when a child is not progressing as expected with decoding, spelling, phonemic awareness, fluency, or reading comprehension. Other families start proactively because they want strong literacy foundations before academic demands increase.
Orton-Gillingham can also support capable readers who are ready for more advanced instruction in spelling patterns, morphology, vocabulary, and written language. Proactive support helps prevent gaps from developing while maintaining strong academic progress over time.
When Children Benefit
Orton-Gillingham instruction can serve children with emerging reading concerns, proactive literacy goals, or a need for more advanced language instruction.
Families generally seek support in three situations:
Early concerns: A child shows early signs of difficulty with sounds, decoding, spelling, fluency, or reading development and is not progressing as expected.
Proactive support: A family wants to start early, strengthen foundational literacy skills, maintain progress, and prevent gaps before school demands increase.
Enrichment: A strong learner is ready for more advanced instruction involving complex spelling patterns, morphology, vocabulary, written language, or increasingly sophisticated texts.
A dyslexia diagnosis is not required for a family to explore structured literacy instruction. The appropriate starting point depends on the child’s current skills, school expectations, and learning goals.
Literacy Specialists
Reading and writing specialists travel throughout Queens. Reading and writing specialists work on decoding, encoding (spelling), reading comprehension, and writing skills. We also assist children on the autism spectrum.
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards & Worksheets
Training/Certifications
Training/Certifications
The Orton-Gillingham approach, developed by Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham, remains one of the most effective, research-based methods for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. It’s especially helpful for neurodivergent learners across the Queens area. At Queens Letters, we connect families with providers who offer customized instruction for students with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other learning differences and learning disabilities. Educational specialists deliver strength-based, multisensory lessons tailored to each child’s learning profile—helping them build literacy skills, independence, and confidence.
Orton-Gillingham pioneered the multisensory approach to teaching reading. A typical Orton-Gillingham learning session often involves action-oriented techniques that use auditory, visual, sensory, and kinesthetic elements to help students establish the connection between language and letters or words. By modeling how to best utilize their sight, hearing, touch, and movement to assist in the reading process, students can learn to become more successful readers. Learn what is structured literacy.
As a step-by-step teaching approach, Orton-Gillingham puts focus on the individual needs of a student. Hence, teachers and learning specialists who follow this approach design and customize lessons according to a learner’s present skill level. The Orton-Gillingham approach is often used in one-on-one teaching sessions, but it can also be employed during small group instruction called the Slingerland Approach. And while it focuses primarily on teaching literacy skills (reading, spelling, and writing), the approach has also been adapted, due to its multisensory nature and sequential teaching, to teach students who struggle with mathematics. (Know more about multisensory math).
Orton-Gillingham tutors focus on the student’s individual needs and incorporate an Orton-Gillingham approach in order to improve literacy skills. With lessons that are both diagnostic and prescriptive, instructors monitor the verbal, non-verbal, and written responses within a given session to assess both areas of concern and progress, as well as outline what can be done in future lessons.
By stressing the alphabetic principle (or the relationship between sounds and letters), your child can improve their literacy skills step-by-step. Both you and your child will understand what is being learned, why it is important, and how to apply what has been learned to everyday literacy tasks. The goal is to help your child develop into a confident, independent reader.
Offering Orton-Gillingham and Wilson tutoring, reading specialists work in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island (Nassau & Suffolk) and travel to your home. They provide assessment and testing, and collaboration is maintained with other professionals, e.g. psychologists, speech-language therapists, and learning specialists.
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MEET QUEENS LETTERS LITERACY SPECIALISTS WHO TRAVEL TO YOUR HOME
Dana
M. Ed., Certified New Jersey Special Education Teacher/Developmental Specialist-Pre-K through Grade 3 and Teacher of Students with Disabilities
Derek B.
MA, NYS Certified Pre-K-6th Grade, NYS Certified Childhood Education And Students With Disabilities
Julia B.
M.S.Ed. in Literacy Education (Grades 1-6), Bachelor of Science in Childhood and Special Education (Grades 1-6)
Dan B.
M.S. ED., NYS
Certified Childhood
General And Special Education (Grades 1-6)
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