Pathway To Reading

Welcome to Pathway to Reading!

I help dyslexic, struggling, and emergent readers become skilled, confident, enthusiastic readers!

Offering intervention for reading, writing, and spelling
in-person or online

The mission of Pathway to Reading is to deliver the highest quality learning experience for children who struggle with reading, writing and spelling. PTR lessons are personalized to the specific needs of each student with the aim of getting them to grade-level reading as quickly as possible.

I believe all students deserve compassion, understanding, and the most current, effective evidence-based intervention available. It is my goal to help all students reach their academic potential. Sometimes success simply requires a different approach; a structured, explicit and multisensory approach where early diagnosis and intervention are critical.

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ABOUT MARY JANE MARTIN M.Ed. (READING)

I am especially passionate about providing quality reading and writing instruction. I target individual needs with personalized, fun, and meaningful sessions rooted in evidence-based instructional practices. I love supporting children and families on their language/literacy journey! It is so fulfilling to help unlock a student’s ability in achieving literacy goals and building success.

Structured Literacy is distinctive in the principles that guide how critical elements are taught.

This approach is characterized by the provision of systematic, explicit and diagnostic instruction that integrates listening, speaking, reading and writing. Structured Literacy emphasizes the structure of language across the speech sound system (phonology), the writing system (orthography), the structure of sentences (syntax), the meaningful parts of words (morphology), the relationships among words (semantics), and the organization of spoken and written discourse.

Systematic and Cumulative

Structured Literacy instruction is systematic and cumulative. Systematic means that the organization of material follows the logical order of the language. The sequence must begin with the easiest and most basic concepts and elements and progress methodically to more difficult concepts and elements. Cumulative means each step must be based on concepts previously learned.

Explicit
Instruction

Structured Literacy instruction requires the deliberate teaching of all concepts with continuous student-teacher interaction. It is not assumed that students will naturally deduce these concepts on their own.

Diagnostic
Teaching

Structured Literacy individualizes instruction and meets a student’s needs. The instruction is based on careful and continuous assessment, both informally (for example, observation) and formally. The content presented must be mastered to the degree of automaticity. Automaticity is critical to freeing all the student’s attention and cognitive resources for comprehension and expression.

TESTIMONIALS

Mary Jane is the most knowledgeable person I know when it comes to literacy intervention strategies. She is certified and holds degrees in many aspects of literacy and she can take struggling readers and bring them up to speed in a matter of months. She brings new ideas, develops learning plans and is trained in the most current reading/writing/phonics programs.

Thanks for helping our daughter stay on track to start first grade this year. She made great progress and really enjoyed her biweekly sessions with you throughout the summer. Who would have thought a child would look forward to tutoring sessions? We really appreciate the work you did with her.

Mary Jane Martin has been a great help in understanding how my son learns and an outstanding tutor for his educational needs. My son really enjoyed working with her and actually looked forward to his tutoring sessions. I highly recommend working with Mary Jane.

Ms. Martin, has worked with my sons for many years enhancing their special education program from a local school district. My sons’ have gained the independence they needed to be successful in the regular education population and have gained confidence to compete with their typical peers in the classroom. I commend Ms. Martin for her tireless efforts in expanding my sons’ learning potential. She always goes above and beyond the call of duty! A million thank yous to Ms. Martin! We love you!

Ms. Martin had been such a support for me and my son during his third and fourth grades. She researched specific training tools that would target his needs, which was such a relief during a time when we did not know which path to take academically. Her training enabled her to work with his specific learning style to achieve his academic goals. Her easy going nature placed him at ease to the extent that he never objected to working with her. For a young guy who had an extremely rigorous academic schedule, that was a tremendous feat! I would highly recommend Ms. Martin to any child needing a loving, effective learning specialist.

I like Ms. Martin because she teaches me all the rules for reading, and she’s nice, funny, patient and honest! I love that we laugh while I learn.

When I told my son that I was going to look for a tutor to help him with his reading, he asked if it could be Ms. Martin.

My daughter, Sarah has been going to Ms. Martin for about two years, twice a week. Sarah never complains about going to reading. Ms. Martin makes it fun and interesting. Sarah has had huge improvements in her reading. She is more confident and happier knowing she can do her work. Thanks to her special tutor, Ms. Martin, Sarah is doing great in fourth grade and I am so pleased to see her good grades and big smiles on her little face.