The Tutoring Center’s Favorite Things!
Math Resources
Easy to use math manipulative that performs like a flash card This cool, colorful tool helps students learn multiplication but also have fun with it by using this as a sensory toy to “pop” the numbers.
Learning Wrap-ups includes 5 sets (Adding & Subtracting Integers, Multiplying & Dividing Integers, Solving for the Unknown, Expressions, and Algebraic Rules & Mental Math). Students wrap the string from the problem on the left to the answer on the right, and can check their answer by flipping over the tool. Wrap-ups utilize many learning senses and are fun for students.This Pre-Algebra Intro Kit is a perfect way to get each student involved in the learning process.
Multiplication and division are opposite functions that are best learned in tandem. These unique three-sided cards give students a real hands-on understanding of facts from 0 through 12. Building familiarity and speed with these basic equations will help them work with larger numbers successfully!
This tool helps students compare fractions and gain a deeper understanding of fraction equivalence and parts-to-whole by using the 5” circles and 8” strips. The hands-on learning by using the magnetic strips helps understanding this concept much easier.
Knowing how to tell time is an important skill. Especially now that we live in a “digital world”, students practicing reading an analog clock is crucial. While there may be few instances in which children have to rely on being able to read an analog clock, analog clocks help children understand the passage of time because they have hands that are constantly moving.
Students can use this play money set to help them learn how to count change. The play money can also Introduce addition, subtraction and counting problems related to monetary values. Allowing students to use play money to develop financial literacy is a skill that will benefit them for a lifetime!
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Affirmation cards are a powerful meditation strategy to increase children's self-esteem and self-love. These motivational cards for kids will be effective in strengthening their mental health and fighting against negative self-thoughts. Having a positive mindset will not only help them learn in school but also grow into happy individuals!
The Big Life Journal is designed specifically for 7-10-year-olds with prompts that encourage the development of a growth mindset. With a growth mindset, students can achieve overcome the challenges of life! These writing prompts incorporate the latest research in positive psychology, brain science, and youth development to support children growing into happy, confident adults.
This growth mindset workbook encourages children aged 11+ to dream about their future. The guided journal for teens and tweens helps them develop resilience, gratitude and positivity including prompts that will help them set goals, turn their negative self-talk into empowerment and discover the power of mindset!
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Growth Mindset Resources
Family Connection Rescources
Not sure what to talk about during family time? These cards contain thoughtful, new questions that are different from the everyday questions we normally ask. Learn things you didn't know, be present with your family, and give them each other the opportunity to learn more about you. Practice conversational skills with your children, like curiosity, telling stories, and sharing while strengthening your bond.
Spark fun conversations at the dinner table or during family game night. Use this deck of 600 family friendly questions to spend more quality time with your kids and family getting their perspective, sharing yours, and having lots of laughs.
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Handwriting Tools & Resources
Students at The Tutoring Center who have struggled with their handwriting skills have really benefited from this tool! It was recommended to us by an Occupational Therapist. This tripod pencil will help your student improve their pencil grip, writing skills and penmanship.
Writing by hand has many cognitive benefits. Not only does it improve hand-eye coordination, patience, and self-control but also our sense of ownership for what we write down. It is never too late to practice and improve penmanship!
Grow and refine your modern print handwriting by practicing the alphabet, numbers, words, and sentences. Then head off on your own with thoughtful open-ended prompts! This workbook will not only help your teen improve their handwriting but also will read positive affirmations that offer encouragement!
Handwriting practice paper is a great tool to help your young students improve their motor skills and introduce practicing their letter and number formation while working on improving their penmanship!
This pencil grip has served to be very beneficial with many students at The Tutoring Center. Comfortable for both left and right-handed students, this pencil grip allows students to be able to practice holding a pencil properly to increase their motor skills and develop good writing habits.
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Time Management and Fidget Tools
This visual timer will help your student Improve their time management, increase productivity with daily tasks, and more! One of the biggest advantages of the countdown visual timer is that it helps your student understand time (e.g. seconds, minutes, hours, remaining time, etc.), understand the passage of time, easily manage daily tasks and break big challenges into small tasks!
Sand timers are a great tool to help develop an understanding of time. This set of sand timers serves as a great visual tool to grasp the concept of time and supports student’s understanding of transitions within their routines.
Fidget toys are a great tool to help relax irritable hands. They can benefit students by helping them concentrate, reducing their anxiety, and supporting emotional stability. Students can bend, fold, or squish this toy to help with their busy hands and bring them back to focus.
Fidget bands are designed to increase focus and attention while letting kids move when they are studying or eating. These bands are beneficial for keeping students occupied while they remain seated.
This seat cushion is designed to help absorb kids' energy and allow them to sit still for long periods. The cushion allows kids to sit and wiggle, which allows them to stay moving in a less distracting way, helping them improve their concentration.
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Developing Readers / Phonics Tools
This book serves as an excellent starting point for students beginning their letter recognition journey! This book focuses on helping children conceptualize the alphabet as a collection of letters that represent sounds and make words.
The Short Vowel Phonics Dominoes is a fun, hands-on way for beginning readers to practice using word analysis and word formation skills to build vocabulary.
Kids learn to easily recognize sight words in Bob Books Sight Words - Kindergarten. Each story introduces three new sight words commonly taught in Kindergarten. The rest of the words in each book can be sounded out. With plenty of repetition within each story and pictures that support the text, your young reader will quickly master early sight words!
This is a well-made fishing game that is educational and fun! Perfect for teaching kids or preschoolers to recognize, spell, and read Sight words. The fishing toy also works on hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Its gaming purpose will engage children in learning words by sight while having fun!
Complete set of Bob Books, the most popular beginning readers on the market. Includes Set 1: Beginning Reader Set 2: Advancing Beginners Set 3: Word Families Set 4: Complex Words Set 5: Long Vowels. Each book is focused on practicing different phonics skills to improve your student’s reading decoding and comprehension skills.
This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give struggling readers multiple opportunities to recognize, review, and reinforce must-know phonics elements, such as consonants, long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. With this practice, students dramatically improve their ability to recognize sound-spelling relationships and use these skills to accurately and efficiently decode words, which in turn boosts fluency and comprehension.
This tool is a fun way to help students be able to read aloud and hear themselves without being distracted by outside sounds. By limiting these distractions, the phones help improve a student’s concentration and attention while reading. This is a fun way to improve reading fluency and improve speech clarity.
Alphabet Flash Cards bring skills such as memory, listening, and beginning sounds. Children will get to know phonics and learn to connect letter sounds with objects: K is for Kite, for example. These ABC flash cards will also teach them that each letter is a symbol that can be memorized.
Highlight strips are great tools to aid students with skipping words, lines, or blocks of text, helping them build visual tracking skills and reduce distractions while they read.
Give your child a head start in reading with these colorful, double-sided Sight Words Flash Cards that feature 100 words from the Fry List. An essential tool in building reading fluency!
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