First Grade Reading Tutors

Is your first grader struggling with reading?

1st grade is the most important year for building reading skills. If your child is behind in reading, the time to act is now!

Viva Phonics provides private online reading tutors for 1st graders who are struggling with reading.

Schedule a free reading screening today!

Can your child?

quickly recall the names and sounds of letters?

accurately blend sounds to read words?

confidently read with ease and accuracy?

correctly retell the events in a story?

We could not be happier with the results of our 7yo son.

He was struggling in class, being bored and confused most of the time (especially with virtual learning setting). One-on-One approach helped build his confidence and skills set. Ms. Ellen is wonderful, attentive, supportive and kind. The approach works and we are hoping to meet all the goals! 
Karina Zametin, Google Review

A Viva Phonics Tutor Will Help Your Child:

Improve Reading Skills

A Viva Phonics tutor will provide personalized instruction based on your child’s strengths and weaknesses, helping them develop critical skills in phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Increase Confidence

Our tutors provide a supportive environment where students can work at their own pace. As they make progress and see their reading skills improve, and their self-esteem grows!

Enhance Overall Performance

As students become stronger readers through tutoring, they can better grasp and understand information presented in other subjects. Your child will also perform better in standardized tests!

Excellent
Based on 15 reviews
Bintou KANE
Bintou KANE
2023-05-25
Angelica has been a blessing as she really assisted my child to improve not only in reading but also in comprehension. He started out being behind at school and he caught up with the help on Viva Phonics! Thank you!
Allison Ege
Allison Ege
2023-05-23
Our daughter has been working with Angelica for about a year and a half now and we have been so happy with how much Viva Phonics has helped her. Reading was a huge struggle for her, and more often than not, homework and any attempt at reading would end in tears and frustration. Now she is reading fluently at grade level, for fun and asking for us to buy her more books. Angelica is patient, helps her work through her frustrations, and keeps her on task during tutoring sessions. I would highly recommend Viva Phonics to anyone with a child who is struggling with reading.
Dennis Cho
Dennis Cho
2023-02-11
Our child has been working with Nicole for several months and has shown great improvement in her confidence. She is in high school, but learning English as a second language. Although this program is geared towards elementary school children, the instructor has shown great flexibility in working with our child who is older. Highly recommend Viva Phonics!
chanelle dubose
chanelle dubose
2022-11-30
Viva phonics has been amazing and my daughter LOVES her tutor Ms. Shannon! My daughter is a struggling reader and in just a few short months, I have seen so much progress with her reading. She is also more confident and actually likes reading now. Her teachers have also seen the huge improvement from her test scores to her entire attitude about reading. Thank you so much Viva Phonics!
Angel Abrego Ramírez
Angel Abrego Ramírez
2022-03-07
I totally recommend the Viva Phonics program. It is very well thought and organized and I’m really proud about the progress my son has made. I like the way that each session is structured, and my son loves it too. It has the right combination of games, repetition and practice. I like the way he gets immediate feedback and learning is corrected and or reinforced on the spot. His teacher is amazing and knows very well how to keep him engaged. They’re good. You can see that they are professional and they know what they’re doing.
Diane Weaverdc
Diane Weaverdc
2022-03-02
My daughter is in first grade and hated to read and was behind in her reading. She is now reading daily, enjoying it, and right on track with her progress. Her instructor, Nicole, does great with her and plays a variety of games to keep her engaged.
Amanda Ciesinski
Amanda Ciesinski
2022-03-01
We’ve worked with Viva Phonics for almost three years. We value the instruction, continuity, tailored approach, and feedback we receive from everyone there.
estela jaramillo
estela jaramillo
2022-02-25
Great program! My son had zero confidence when reading, and wanted nothing to do with it. He recently asked if he could pick out books from the library! Ms. Allison has been great with him, and he enjoys his weekly classes with her.
Joanna H.
Joanna H.
2022-01-28
My 7 year old is showing so much progress since we started in November. His 2nd grade teacher began to notice improvements after just 3 weeks of beginning the sessions. I am very grateful that we found this program! Ms. Allison and Mrs. Angelica are awesome!!
LaToya Jenkins
LaToya Jenkins
2021-08-13
I noticed that my daughter was having issues with decoding multi-syllable words. As a certified teacher, I tried to help her, but we were "bumping heads". While being a virtual learner in 3rd grade half of last year, I signed her up for Viva Phonics. Her former tutor Ms. Ellen and her current tutor Mrs. Angelica has helped her to fill in the missing gaps with her reading. I am highly impressed with the growth that my daughter has gained since starting the program. I would recommend Viva Phonics to anyone who has a struggling reader.

About Viva Phonics

I’m Angelica and I created this online reading intervention program when I started working 1:1 with students who struggled with reading. I found that many times students were being sent home with sight word lists that had no logical pattern and included words that could easily be decoded. Students weren’t able to blend simple words and when they didn’t know a word they would just guess!

The only way to fill the skills gaps was to relearn to read. Starting from scratch ensured that students had the foundational skills needed to grasp more complex concepts within the Viva Phonics program and beyond.

After more than a century of frustration, it has now been shown that the brain can be rewired and that struggling children can become skilled readers. Sally Shaywitz, M.D., Overcoming Dyslexia

It is very well thought and organized and I’m really proud about the progress my son has made. I like the way that each session is structured, and my son loves it too. It has the right combination of games, repetition and practice. I like the way he gets immediate feedback and learning is corrected and or reinforced on the spot. His teacher is amazing and knows very well how to keep him engaged. They’re good. You can see that they are professional and they know what they’re doing.

Angel Abrego Ramirez

Google Review