Writing Tutoring in Chicago

Writing can be one of the most challenging academic skills for students to master, often causing frustration for students and anxiety for their parents. From organizing their thoughts to adhering to grammar rules, many students struggle to articulate their ideas clearly and confidently. Others struggle just to get started putting pen to paper, stranded somewhere between perfectionism and writers block.

These difficulties can lead to lower grades, diminished self-esteem, and a lack of enthusiasm for writing assignments.

At Chicago Home Tutor, we understand the unique challenges each student faces and offer personalized writing tutoring to help them overcome these obstacles. Our experienced tutors provide targeted support to strengthen writing skills, foster creativity, and build confidence, empowering students to excel in their academic and personal writing endeavors.

For our younger students who may have motor difficulties which impede handwriting, we use strategies such as Handwriting Without Tears and raised paper to support these students. For students with disabilities that may make legible handwriting difficult or impossible, we work with assistive technology to develop content writing skills. For more complex motor difficulties, we can help you determine if it may be necessary to refer to an occupational therapist.

For younger students who can write legibly, we use our early literacy programs and methods like Shared Rime to help them learn to spell more accurately. We also help students to produce more content and write more fluently and connect reading to writing by writing responses to texts we have read.  We also begin to teach them important self-sufficiency skills with strategies like the Cover, Copy and Compare Method.

As students master spelling and begin producing more content, we start to focus on organization of thoughts and producing higher-quality content. Here we often combine writing instruction with executive functioning strategies to help students with idea production, organization, and managing the steps and parts of longer projects like five paragraph essays and research papers. We also teach students to become more independent by analyzing the quality of their own writing.  Students learn to relate higher level writing and reading skills like reading a passage and effectively developing concise written main ideas and summaries.