Tutoring - Children Grades 1-12
English Grammar, Reading Comprehension and Writing
Your child may be naturally intelligent, but the public education system might be failing to cultivate your child’s potential. Students are sadly entering university and college barely knowing how to use a comma properly, much less a semi-colon or colon. Basic reading comprehension skills are frequently underdeveloped in our children and their writing skills are often abysmal. In a digital age where children are exposed to the atrocious grammar and writing compositions of “texting”, this problem is only amplifying.
None of this is the fault of your child. A student needs good and consistent instruction. This is where we can help.
We offer private tutoring online in English grammar, reading comprehension and writing skills for children and teens from Grades 1 to 12.
Unlike other tutoring institutions that ineffectively give long tutoring sessions only once or twice a week (because it is convenient for the tutor, not the learner!), we recognize that children learn differently than adults and have short attention spans. Children learn grammar best in small amounts at a time, coupled with regular independent exercises.
For younger children (Grades 1-8), we offer three 20-minute online sessions per week and assign short daily homework exercises (which we check) for the days in-between sessions. For teens (Grades 9-12), we offer two 40-minute online sessions per week, combined with longer daily homework assignments appropriate for their age.
Contact us to discuss your child’s specific needs and to arrange a tutoring schedule.
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English Literature and Poetry
At Studemus we appreciate the great works of English literature, and we wish to share with your child our fondness of poetry. We consider it a small travesty that many schools fail to instill in their students a love for the written word.
Your child will deepen his or her knowledge of poetry by learning about prosody (metre, rhythm, rhyme, versification, scansion and intonation), identifying different types of poetry by its form (sonnet, lyric, epic, narrative, ode, and many other others), learning to the meaning of a poem, and reading many selections of the greatest poems of the English language. Your child will read and analyze the great examples of English-language novelists with our tutors, from A.A. Milne to Lewis Carroll for our younger students, and Charles Dickens to Ernest Hemingway for the older ones. In our view, no child is too young to be introduced to at least some Shakespeare, and teens should be able to read, understand and analyze his most important plays.
For children (Grades 1-6), we offer two 20-minute learning sessions per week; for older children (Grades 7-8), we offer two 30-minute sessions per week; and for teens (Grades 9-12), we offer one 45-minute session. Each age level will receive regular homework.
Our sessions are private, one-on-one sessions online with your child. If your child, however, would like to learn with friends or with a similar-aged sibling, our tutors will teach up to four English Literature and Poetry students at a time for the price of one.
Contact us with questions or to arrange a personalized schedule.
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History and Geography
We offer history and geography lessons online for children and teens of all ages, grades 1-12. Our history tutors all hold at least a bachelor’s degree or higher in history or geography or a related field and are avid history buffs!
Your child will learn world history and geography with us: ancient, medieval, and modern. From the first civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia to medieval kingdoms to the invention of the printing press, our students learn a broad view of world history and understand why each era had ever-changing maps.
Your child will also learn his or her own nation’s history (any English-speaking country), along with the local history of your province/state, region, and town or city. Our history buff tutors are trained researchers and will delight in putting together a specific local history program for wherever you may live. (If your child is struggling with specific aspects of history and geography at school, we will also investigate the public-school curriculum for that grade level of your region and create a tutoring plan accordingly.)
Your child can learn alone in private online tutoring sessions or in small groups of up to four students for the same price as one.
For Grades 1-6, we offer two 20-minute sessions per week; for Grades 7-8, we offer two 25-minute sessions per week. For Grades 9-12, we offer one 45-minute session per week. For all age levels, we also assign homework, reading and study materials that we expect our students to do on their own during the week.
Contact us with questions or to arrange a personalized schedule.
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Political Science, Economics and Government
Studemus offers private tutoring for your child (Grades 1-12) online in the combined fields of political science, economics, and government. Friends or siblings around the same age can also be tutored with your child (up to four students at once) for the same price.
Appropriate to your child’s specific grade level and country (we specialize in most English-speaking countries, including, but not limited to, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), your child: will better learn the operations and composition of federal, provincial / state, and local governments; learn macroeconomics and microeconomics, the relationship between economic agents, and how economies work in general; and older students in particular will learn about the various political and economic ideologies and theories that have helped shaped the modern world in which we live. (Of course, if you identify any specific aspect of these fields that your child is struggling with in school in particular, our tutors will concentrate on that first.)
Children in Grades 1-6 receive two 20-minute learning sessions per week; children in Grades 7-8 receive two 30-minute sessions per week; and teens in Grades 9-12 receive one 45-minute session per week. Our tutors will also expect students of all ages to do short homework assignments that will be checked each week.
Contact us with questions or to arrange a schedule.
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French
We offer private tutoring online for your child with a native French-speaker. Our tutors will help your child (Grades 1-12) with any level of French, from complete beginner to advanced student.
Many Canadian students from English-speaking families in particular struggle with French in school. This is not their fault! It is the fault of the way French is taught in school. As with any second language, people, especially children, learn languages best in small amounts but with consistent, daily practice.
For children in Grades 1-6, we therefore offer three 20-minute sessions per week; for older children in Grades 7-8, we offer three 30-minute sessions per week; and for teens in Grades 9-12, we offer three 45-minute classes per week. Our students of all ages will be expected to do short homework assignments that we assign for the days in-between tutoring sessions.
Private classes are usually the best for language-learning, but if your child does not want to study alone, there is good news! He or she can have class with friends or siblings of around the same age and have more fun learning. Our tutors will tutor up to six French students at a time for the same price as one.
New to Studemus – We now offer private French classes for adults as well! Contact us to inquire.
Contact us with questions or to arrange a personalized schedule.
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Spanish
We offer private tutoring online for your child with a native Spanish-speaker. Our tutors will help your child (Grades 1-12) with any level of Spanish, from complete beginner to advanced student.
Children learn languages best in small amounts at a time and with consistent, regular practice. For children in Grades 1-6, we therefore offer three 20-minute sessions per week; for older children in Grades 7-8, we offer three 30-minute sessions per week; and for teens in Grades 9-12, we offer three 45-minute classes per week. Our students of all ages will be expected to do short homework assignments that we assign for the days in-between sessions.
If your child does not want to study alone, there is good news! He or she can have class with friends or siblings of around the same age and have more fun learning. Our tutors will tutor up to 6 Spanish students at a time for the same price as one.
New to Studemus – We now offer private Spanish classes for adults as well! Contact us to inquire.
Contact us with questions or to arrange a personalized schedule.
To choose a plan or make a payment, click here.
Latin
Very few public schools around the world still offer Latin classes to children. This is a pity. In our view, Latin should be a required component of the curriculum for any student who is university-bound.
The benefits of Latin are numerous. One cannot do any serious study of classical civilization (ancient Greece and Rome), medieval studies or western church history and theology without it. It is the mother of the Romance languages, which will help you understand many modern languages better. Our legal and scientific terminology is full of Latin words. Latin is a heavily declined language, so learning its grammar will help you appreciate your own language’s grammar more. And Latin just sounds really cool!
We offer private or small group Latin lessons for beginners of all ages, from young children to retired adults.
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Mathematics
Most freelance private tutors and private tutoring companies offer longer tutoring sessions in mathematics for children only once or twice a week. This is because longer sessions only once or twice a week are convenient for the tutors – but they are not good for the child!
At Studemus, we recognize that children learn differently than adults. They have much shorter attention spans, especially for complicated concepts. We also recognize that mathematics (like language-learning), requires consistent and regular practice at any age. We therefore offer younger students (Grades 1-8) three short but pedagogically efficient 20-minute online sessions with our tutors per week and require them to do short daily homework exercises for practice. High school students (Grades 9-12) receive two 30-minute sessions per week, also with assigned, regular homework.
Private lessons are already priced reasonably, but your child may be tutored with a few friends or similar-aged siblings if he or she does not want to be tutored alone. Our tutors will tutor up to three Math students for the price of one.
Math is like putting together a piece of boxed furniture with many pieces. If you follow all the steps, it is easy. If you have lost the instruction manual or have even missed a single step, you will be frustrated, and it won’t be assembled properly. If your child is having trouble in mathematics, chances are a very simple but essential step has been missed along the way. We can help recover that step.
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Science
We offer private online tutoring sessions for children of all ages (Grades 1-12) in the natural sciences: biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and the earth sciences. Your child can be tutored privately, or friends and similar-aged siblings could join the tutoring sessions. Our tutors will give sessions for up to six science students at a time for the price of one.
The physical universe is a wondrous place. From the movement of tiny electrons to the diversity of biological life to the formation of stars – we want your child to feel the same wonder for science that we do.
For children in Grades 1-6, we offer two 20-minute sessions per week; for children in Grades 7-8, we offer two 25-minute classes per week; and for teens in Grades 9-10, we offer one 50-minute class per week. Students of all ages will be expected to do assigned science homework on their own during the week.
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Complete Tutoring Packages
Some parents might feel that their child needs a complete tutoring package of all school subjects. Studemus has tutors who will develop a tutoring plan for all subjects for a single student in some cases.
Contact us if you would like to inquire about such a package. Rates and specific plans are determined on an individual basis.
Contact us to create a specialized program.
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