Someone said you can't teach anyone anything, only get them excited to learn it for themselves. Your creativity, imagination and experience are the most effective tools you have to communicate the joy and wonder reading can bring to our lives. Reading is much more than an acquired skill, but a gateway to learning about oneself and the world that surrounds us.

As the saying goes: give someone a fish, feed him for a day; teach someone to fish, feed him for life. Good Readers are able to relate books and stories to their own lives, they read fluently and make associations within the text and to the people and objects around them, moving beyond simply sounding out the letters and words. The goal of the tutor is to build good readers, by example, by instruction, by correction.