Reading and Writing 📚 lessons with
Coach Michelle Moncayo
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Reading and Writing 📚 lessons with
Coach Michelle Moncayo
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About your reading and writing coach
I am an experienced Reading, Writing, and ESL tutor with 13+ years teaching students from early childhood through adulthood. I hold a B.A. in English with a minor in Education and an MFA in Poetry. I specialize in reading comprehension, expository and creative writing, ESL, and poetry. As a published writer, I use a student-centered approach that adapts to different learning styles, encourages creativity, builds confidence, and creates a lasting love of learning.
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Teaches: Kids, Teenagers, Adults
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Levels: Beginners, Intermediates, Experts
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Lives in: North Arlington, New Jersey
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Years Coaching: 13 years
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Speaks: English, Spanish
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Given: 25 lessons
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Accomplishments
➕Award-winning Poet
Specializations
🎯Creative Writing
🎯Essay Writing
🎯Poetry & Spoken Word
🎯Academic Writing
Beginner training plan
Your first lessonThe most important priority for me is to get to know my student both as a student and as a person. This can help me gauge what their learning style is, what pace is best for them in teaching, what difficulties they are encountering in trying to do their work, and what helps them most (reading, listening to audio, watching Youtube videos, etc.). It is also crucial to understand what their goal(s) are in tutoring. I also like to take a few minutes to learn basic things about my students like what hobbies they enjoy (music, sports, art, etc.) because that helps me use that as a framework to help them understand concepts, and it gives them more of a comfort level. It is important to me that I build a rapport with students, and that they feel comfortable and not as stressed as they do in school.
Lesson 2-3If the student has an assignment, we start to read the assignment together, and allow them to ask questions. If the student does not have an assignment, I like to give options of what skills to work on during our lessons. This way, they can guide their own learning and we can work on specific skills that they need some help with. I always start with foundational basics, questions like: what is the essay about (in their own words, and after pre-reading) what do they understand about the essay, and what is the point of the essay. This way I can see where the student is getting stuck or needs to review skills to help them. I do the same process for reading.
Lesson 4-10By this point, I hope to have developed a good relationship with my students. This is a big goal for me because it allow me to get more creative in how I tutor, and make an environment where can participate more. I encourage the student to be more active in their learning, by allowing more space for them to ask better questions, and express their thoughts. We do some deeper understanding of their assignment, and work towards a level where they feel confident in their work.
Advanced training plan
Your first lessonThe most important priority for me is to get to know my student both as a student and as a person. This can help me gauge what their learning style is, what pace is best for them in teaching, what difficulties they are encountering in trying to do their work, and their working knowledge in their subject. It is also crucial to understand what their goal(s) are in tutoring. I also like to take a few minutes to learn basic things about my students like what hobbies they enjoy (music, sports, art, etc.) because that helps me use that as a framework to help them understand concepts, and it gives them more of a comfort level. It is important to me that I build a rapport with students, and that they feel comfortable and not as stressed as they do in school.
Lesson 2-3The second and third lessons we will start the assignment. If it is writing an essay, we would start with the basics to make sure there is a solid foundation (what is an essay, what is the role of an essay, how is an essay structured) before moving on to using skills in practice such as outlining. By watching how the student does with basic skills, I can identify what their blind spots are, what they don’t understand, and their strengths. This will help me to adjust the level I am teaching at. The student will be an active participant - they will read the prompts, they will think out loud with me so they can see that they are capable of doing the hard work (this helps them in further lessons and in growing confidence) and they will be asked to do outlines (first I’ll do it with them, then they will try alone). The foundation and the student’s abilities are very important to learn.
Lesson 4-10Now that they have been more acquainted with the basic skills in their subject, we can work on improving the structure that we created in the first two lessons. We will add details to outline points, expand on ideas, and look for quotes to support the writing. After this, we will review the structure (of an essay for example) and they will start writing their essay, section by section. Student will have more independent time with guidance.
Lesson 11+In additional lessons, I focus on building upon the skills that were learned. We focus more closely on details like punctuation, identifying what a passage of reading is really saying, and developing more complex ideas. We can practice skills together by doing hands on things like reading an additional passage of the book, learning on a deeper level about grammar, tricks that can be used in summarizing, reading, and writing. My goal here is to make sure the student has command over their work, and can work without me in the outside world.
What you need to bringIf lesson is in person, please bring:
-notebooks
-writing utensils
-assignment (the assignment prompt and the book or essay that you are writing about. Example: if you’re learning about Pride & Prejudice, bring the book. If you’re writing an essay about a book, bring the book.)
-any extra resources that help you (worksheets, index cards, references, etc.
What I can bringI can bring extra writing utensils, an extra notebook, highlighters, and post it notes. If there are worksheets that I find that can help with the task, I can bring those as well.
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And if you simply want to reschedule your lesson, change the date and time, or adjust the number of students joining, we've got you covered there too. You can easily make these changes within 24 hours of booking, and up to 72 hours before your lesson starts.
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