November 29, 2022

Grateful to have your visit...

Are you a teacher, tutor, student, educator, and/or parent?  Would be very interested to know your role(s); leave a comment if you'd like.

With full transparency, my intention is to offer guidance and share with you enriching, edifying, skills-building English Language Arts resources that I have developed, organically, over many years of working with students online--and across time zones--as a private English tutor.  

A main purpose of this blog is to share Graphic Organizers, Strategy Sheets, and Skills-Building Activities I have made for use with my students and have just this month posted for sale on my Teachers Pay Teachers digital store.  Here is one of my indispensable favorites that inspires wonderful reading process discussion with my in-person and online SAT™ and ACT™ students:

This is a highly downloaded FREEBIE at my TPT Store:

Reading Tips Freebie

I would be grateful for your visit. These resources have been immeasurably handy & helpful for me, and I hope they can work for you and your students|tutees|children as well. Your visit and feedback are welcome ~ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Carnevale-English-Resources.

You will find these resources handy, as I do, to text or email to your students and kids!  If you're a tutor, you can slide into Skype or Zoom chats. If you use Google Classroom, you can share and post them to your online classroom.

I have tutored students from Montauk to Malaysia to Manhattan, from California to Florida to New Jersey to Turkey to those who live around-the-block lol.... I keep a Map Marker app and am amazed where by tutoring has taken me, virtually at least : )

Bit of Background

Blessed, busy, and in business.

I am incredibly blessed with a wonderful husband, three amazing sons, supportive family, friends and neighbors and two snuggly-sweet 'doodles: a mini apricot golden doodle and a silver toy poodle.

~ busy with family, friends, home, life in general...we all are!

~ and in business for myself as a private English tutor for over twenty years.

I hold a Master of Arts in English and secondary education from Columbia University's Teachers College and have authored four SAT|ACT books for Barron's Educational Publishers. I was a former tenured teacher of English before "retiring" to raise our sons, be a homemaker (my heart passion), write, and tutor.

Over the years, my tutoring practice has reached geographical locations and teaching themes beyond that which I ever could have imagined!

Student Anecdotes*

You can get a sense of my work through a handful of anecdotes. Yesterday, for example, I Zoomed with a student from Fairfax County, Alexandria, VA, on writing enrichment. During our 90 minutes session (my standard tutoring session), he drafted an acrostics poem on the theme of self-care and wrote a heart tingling haiku about hope.  

Needless to say, it was an inspiring and fruitful session. Back story: I tutored his older brother for SAT Reading, Writing and Language followed by facilitating his common application personal statement and college essay supplements, and now his younger brother is my writing student.  Sibling referrals have been steady and fruitful.

* Herein and forward, student names are anonymous or dramatically changed.

Word of Mouth

Word of mouth has been the steadfast fuel behind my tutoring practice. I have worked through siblings (8 of 8 in one local family!), neighbors, family friends, and college roommates.

For example, later today I Skype with a student who lives 25 minutes away. We will be brainstorming|planning for his University of Richmond supplemental statement. This student was referred to me by a writing student from Bucknell University. He is the younger brother of my student's roommate. Next week, I will help this student's father to rework|revise his resume. No doubt, word of mouth referrals are the lifeblood of my business.

Another Student Anecdote: Anonymous, As Always

Later today, I have an ACT English and Reading student. He lives 25 minutes away but Zoom is most convenient for the family: the mom is a busy real estate agent and there are two other children in the family. My student is incredibly busy with school, clubs, soccer, driver's ed, and working out with a personal trainer, so online tutoring works best for him, allowing him to be comfortable at home, save driving time, and allow him to have his Yorkie (so cute!) on his lap while working through the ACT reading passages and questions... After Luke (fake name), I will be Zooming with a longtime student from Bucknell (she and her brother used to be my SAT students), collaborating on final edits for her 25-page, research-based anthropology paper.

I will share more tutoring anecdotes in future posts : )

Enjoy your day!

Be well and talk soon,

Linda