Our Tutoring Method

At the heart of all our tutorials is personal attention to boost skills, confidence, and positive motivation of our eager young students. LLE provides a replicable, sustainable tutorial by training and working alongside community organizations to provide highly effective reading instruction in a personal setting.

Giving Baltimore City Youth Access to State of the art instruction

LLE's tutorials are a kid-friendly, streamlined adaption of the highly successful Orton-Gillingham tutorial used in primier programs including   St. Paul's Schools, Jemicy School, Friends School, Cathedral School, as well as in other prestigious programs nationwide.

​This multi-sensory methodology is a robust application of the National Reading Panel of recommendations which calls for explicit instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension.
LLE Tutorials are administered with the following features:
  • 60 hours of Orton-Gillingham based tutoring throughout the school year to help students build the strongest possible foundation of skills
  • Student assessments for individualizing student programs and measuring student progress
  • Personal, small group instruction with an average 6:1 student to teacher ratio
  • Training and on-site supervision for partnering organization staff by LLE reading specialists
  • Individualized instructional materials promoting hands-on student participation
  • Literacy enrichment activities including art, music, and acting skits

Vibrant Community Partnerships

Teaming up with community organizations, LLE brings the literacy expertise to the setting of partnering organizations which have well established, personal ties to the community. 
  • From 2010-2014, LLE partnered with Father Charles Hall School and St. Peter Claver Church in East Baltimore, serving over 60 youth annually in after-school and summer camp programs.
  • Since 2012, we started to collaborate with Greenmount Recreation Center in East Baltimore, serving over 80 youth in after-school and summer camp programs. The dynamic center director has been working with students in the Greenmount neughborhood for over 20 years and is now serving the children of past students!
  • In 2015, LLE formed a partnership with St. Francis Neighborhood Center which as been workin in the Reservoir Hill community for over 50 years. We are excited to be working with such a persional, caring, and intelligent group.

Literacy and More...

LLE tutorials include enrichment activities to stimulate and nurture new talents and interests. LLE applies thorough, logical, and multi-sensory principles to a math unit for early math skills as well as Science and Social Studies units that incorperate literacy skills for middle school children.