Online Reading Tutoring Program

A self-paced reading program that boosts confidence and love for reading

Help your child become a confident, skilled reader with a self-paced course designed to support every step of their learning journey.

Using the Orton-Gillingham approach, this program empowers children from preschool to 8th grade to overcome reading challenges, building a strong foundation for lifelong literacy success.

The power of learning together.

Our online reading program helps parents understand reading strategies while also teaching your child how to use them. We empower you to continue supporting your child’s reading journey – even outside of the program!

This program is perfect for:

Parents with children who are learning to read and want to help them be successful.
Homeschooling parents who are using a phonics-based reading program and want a better way to teach spelling/reading rules to their child.
Parents whose children attend Marmalade Skies Tutoring Inc, located in Tucson, Arizona and want to teach these concepts so that they can be consistent at home and at school.

How our online reading program works

The program is separated into levels that contain multiple lessons, focusing on specific areas of reading growth. Lessons come with practice drills and tips for increased success.

For just $35 per month, you’ll get access to videos and worksheets that will create an engaging learning environment for your child. Every 3 months, you and your child will progress to a new level of course material, adding additional building blocks toward your child’s literacy success.

As a bonus, you will have access to our online community where we will share additional information and offerings to further enrich your child’s learning experience!

The best part is that the tools you learn in this program can be applied to any phonics-based reading program, apps, or workbooks. Or it can be used entirely on its own with the drills, worksheets, and tips provided. Whether your child is 4 or 14, you’ll find lots of success here.

This online program is systematic, sequential, multi-sensory, explicit and direct. Each level builds on itself; It is designed for you to learn each building block of phonics and then share it with your child.

Your child will build a positive relationship to reading that will last a lifetime. No more tears, frustration, or avoidance.

Essential building blocks for reading success

Level 1

In this first level, we help your child build a strong foundation by focusing on the sounds each letter makes, including the short vowels. You’ll also learn when the vowel makes its short sound and when it does not. By the end of this level, your child will be more comfortable sounding out and reading basic words.

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Isolated letters and short vowels: We start at the basics to ensure a strong foundation, beginning with the sound of each letter. Make sure you know the correct sound that every letter makes, including w, y, g, and qu. We teach the short vowel sounds and provide helpful keywords.
Digraphs: A digraph is when two consonants are pushed together to make one sound, such as sh, th, ch. Your child will be able to recognize these letters and read them correctly in words like “shop,” “much,” and “them.”
Closed syllables: When does the vowel make its short sound? In a closed syllable! A closed syllable is when one vowel is closed in by a consonant. That’s why the word “cat” make its short vowel sound. We help de-mystify syllables and vowel sounds for you so it’s easy to understand when (and why) a vowel will make its short sound.
Silent -e syllable: Sometimes vowels make their long sound. But when? In words like “lake,” the letter -e makes the vowel say its name. We call this the “Bully -e” and teach you how to recognize him using a fun story.

Level 2

In Level two, your child will continue to build on what they have learned, increasing their ability to read longer words. They’ll learn when the vowel makes its short sound and when it does not.

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Open syllables: Sometimes vowels make their long sound. But when? In words like “go” and “me,” the vowel is not followed by a consonant. So it makes its long sound. In longer words like di-no-saur, the first syllable ends in a vowel. That’s called an open syllable. Learning this syllable type helps your child read short and long words!
Sight words and “Jail Words”: Sight words are frequently seen words when reading, such as “is,” “when,” “because,” and “she.” There are hundreds of them! Most follow the rules and can be sounded out, but a handful do not. We call those “Jail Words” and teach you fun ways to learn them for faster and easier reading.
Unusual letter pairs: We teach the unusual endings of -dge and -tch as units so that they’re easy to recognize and read. Our method will help your child quickly sound out words like “bridge” and “catch.”
Common prefixes: One of the easiest ways to read multi-syllable words, such as “impossible” is to recognize the prefix. We teach you the most common prefixes so that your child can read longer words with more success.

Level 3

In Level three, your child will learn to read vowel teams along with more complex material, building on their strong foundation!

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Vowel teams: when two vowels are paired together, we call those a vowel team. There are a lot of vowel teams in English! But there are only a few highly common ones, such as “ea” and “ay.” We teach these first so your child will feel comfortable and not overwhelmed by words with vowel teams.
Consonant -le syllable: At the end of words like “little” and “trouble” is a pattern: consonant + l + e. This is called the “Consonant -le” syllable type. Learning about this will help your child recognize the pattern, see where to break up a word, and understand how to sound it out.
The -ng and -nk families: Your child will become comfortable reading words with -ng, such as “string” and “long.” They will also get comfortable reading any word that ends in -nk, such as “blink” and “thank.”
Final -y: The letter y can make three different sounds! It says /y/ at the beginning of a word, such as “yuck.” But it says “I” at the end of a short word, such as “cry” and “fly.” And it says “E” at the end of a long word, such as “happy” and “company.” We show you these rules and patterns so that your child can read final -y words with ease.

Level 4

In Level four, your child meets the “Bossy-R” and takes another big step in reading longer words by introducing suffixes.

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Bossy R: When a vowel is immediately followed by an “r,” the R gets bossy and makes the vowel change its sound! We call this “Bossy R” and he appears as ar, er, ir, or, and ur. We teach you the sound for each bossy-r and provide numerous example words, such as “forest,” “doctor,” and “birthday.”
Suffixes -ment and -ness: There are numerous suffixes but we have selected the most common for you! Recognizing these endings helps your child read and understand bigger words more easily. We teach you how to read the suffix -ment as in “enjoyment” and -ness as in “kindness.”
Suffixes -ous and -ly: Recognizing suffixes is an easy way to read a long word with confidence. Next up are -ous as in “famous” and -ly as in “quickly.” We show you how -ous would sound if we tried to sound it out!

Bonus Level

To compliment your reading journey, in this bonus level, we offer additional support based on challenging areas many children face as they learn.

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Letter reversal: It’s common for children to confuse lowercase letters such as b and d. But when should it raise red flags? Your child may also reverse b, d, p, q. We discuss multiple strategies for helping your child learn the difference!
Blending sounds: Sometimes it’s challenging to blend two or more sounds together smoothly. Can your child read “fre, bla, splo” with ease? Mastering this hurdle will lead to faster decoding of nonsense words, smoother reading of all words, and increased confidence in reading!
Making it fun: Reading should be fun! We show you different ways to help your child stay engaged, including multi-sensory strategies, games, and techniques.
Avoidance behaviors: Often, children may demonstrate avoidance behaviors when asked to read because they don’t think they’ll be successful. We offer targeted strategies and solutions to make reading a positive experience for your child.

Spelling and Neater Writing

In this section, we offer the reinforcing and complimentary areas of writing and spelling. By connecting reading, writing, and spelling, your child gains a deeper understanding of how words work, setting them up for even greater success.

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Can you spell it?: In learning to read, your child sees a letter and says its sound. When spelling, your child has to reverse that skill! Writing down letters based on their sounds (also known as dictation, what says, and spelling) is a powerful, multi-sensory way to reinforce reading skills.
Writing neatly: Writing is an excellent way to reinforce those letter sounds! While your child is practicing this skill, you can help them to write neatly. Knowing the right way to form each letter will lead to neater handwriting, so your child’s handwriting keeps up with their reading progress.
Specific spelling rules: There are a lot of spelling rules in English, but you don’t need to memorize them all! We teach you the most important spelling rules for your child to learn, such as the FLOSS rule for words like “grass” and the rule for when to double when adding a consonant for words like “running.”

Why online tutoring works

Learning to read at home allows your child to progress at a comfortable, personalized pace, creating a safe environment where they can explore and practice new skills without pressure.

This self-paced approach gives parents a unique opportunity to confidently support their child’s reading journey, providing encouragement and guidance every step of the way.

Together, you’ll celebrate each milestone, fostering a deeper bond and a shared love for reading.

Our online tutoring program helps children with learning differences

Autism

Children with autism can struggle with reading due to perseveration, distractability, avoidance, inflexibility about decoding rules, and a strong need to understand or apply consistent rules. The design of our program offers all the methods that sync well with children on the spectrum.

Dyslexia

Children with dyslexia can struggle to recall letter shapes, letter sounds, working memory, reversals, reading words backwards, fluency, sight word recall, and more. Our program provides consistent repetition of each skill, which then is learned to mastery before moving forward; our method helps children with dyslexia learn to read quickly and easily.

ADHD

Children with ADHD can struggle with reading due to the speed with which they are trying to complete the task, slowing themselves down long enough to learn and retain the rules, distractibility, retention and memory. Our multisensory approach encourages children with ADHD to stay engaged, on task, and focused.

Tina Bauschatz
Founder and Director

As a highly trained reading specialist, I’ve tutored hundreds of students across thousands of hours. My specialty is teaching children with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism how to read.

Marmalade Skies Tutoring was founded on the successful Orton-Gillingham based reading program that I teach in this online course. I’ve trained all of our tutors to use this program and I will train you too!