TutorLab connects parents with qualified Reading Support tutors across the UK. GCSE Reading Support tutors typically charge £35–£55/hour; A-Level specialists £45–£70. Browse tutors and contact them directly, one all-in price.
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Reading support tutoring helps children who are struggling with phonics, decoding, fluency or comprehension, including those with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties. Private reading tutors work one-to-one at the child's own pace, using evidence-based approaches that classroom settings cannot always provide.
Children who struggle with reading often develop strategies to mask the difficulty, memorising common words, avoiding reading aloud or losing concentration, so the underlying phonics gap compounds over time without targeted one-to-one intervention.
Signs that a child may benefit from a reading support tutor include: reading significantly below the expected level for their age, avoiding reading aloud, frequent reversal of letters or words, losing track of meaning while decoding, or a teacher flagging concerns. A tutor with experience in phonics-based reading intervention can quickly diagnose the specific difficulty and target it directly.
Yes. Many reading support tutors on TutorLab have specialist experience working with dyslexic learners, using structured literacy programmes such as Reading Recovery, Toe by Toe or Nessy. These approaches use systematic phonics instruction with multisensory techniques, connecting sounds to letters through sight, hearing and movement, which the research consistently shows to be most effective for dyslexic readers.
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