Communiskills offers personalised, one to one numeracy support/maths tutoring after school for children who are struggling in maths. We endeavour to build their understanding and confidence in a fun, supportive environment.

We assess the child’s ability to read words and understanding the words to make sense of what they are reading. We then provide therapy focusing on the skills needing to be practised. This may include:

• Phonological awareness (sound awareness)

• Phonics

• Recognising sight words

• Decoding skills (sounding out words and blending sounds)

• Reading comprehension skills

Working with children on their writing skills first involves an assessment to determine what skills the child is finding difficult and then targeting these areas in therapy using a supportive approach. This may include:

• grammar - how words are put together in sentences

• forming sentences and combining sentences to express their ideas

• spelling rules

• story writing

Word reading requires understanding the letter-sound rules and decoding. Spelling words requires understanding the letter-sound rules to spell words (encode). Struggling readers and writers often have difficulty with these skills. At Communiskills we use systematic and explicit phonics instruction which follows the science of reading, working with the student at their point of need.