Love Literacy Mount Maunganui provides evidence-based learning support for reading, writing, and spelling using a Structured Literacy approach.

Love Literacy Mount Maunganui provides evidence-based learning support. Our services extend to any learner needing additional literacy support, including those with Dyslexia and other neurodiverse learning difficulties. Our approach is to carry out an initial diagnostic Literacy Assessment for your learner. From this, a comprehensive and detailed learning plan is provided showing areas of literacy needing specific support, alongside literacy strengths. Tutoring is delivered either one-to-one or in a grouping of no more than two learners. Face-to-face or Zoom sessions are available

About Me:

Hi, my name is Heather and I am a Specialist Educator providing evidence-based learning support. Initially, my career path did not begin in the Education Sector, however, it has helped to shape me to be the teacher I am today. When our eldest child was diagnosed with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia, we attempted to navigate our way through this and found there was a lack of understanding and support for neurodiverse learners like ours. From there my passion to realign my life and career emerged. I wanted to be able to support my son, as well as families like ours who did not know where to begin, or who to turn to when needing help with how to learn to read, write and spell. To achieve this I completed a year-long SPELD program, which provided me with the New Zealand Certificate in Teaching Individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities. Following this, I worked for a private tutoring service as a Specialist Educator. I now work independently providing evidence-based learning support. To find out more about my journey, you can watch me talk to Arti from Human Chapters here, or listen on Spotify here.

About Yeet:

It all began with wanting to share a literacy game we played during tutoring sessions, that already appealed to students we were working with who needed additional fun ways to support their journey with learning to read, write and spell.  Repetition is a crucial element in building neural pathways for learning, and what better way to do this, than with a fun literacy game that changes things up, while at the same time creating an element of thrill?

There are seven introductory versions of ‘yeet’; CVC words, blends, digraphs, silent e words, soft ce and ge words, words containing the r-controlled vowels er, ir, and ur, and words containing a longer spelling rule.  Packs contain 54 cards made up of 1 instruction card, 7 ‘yeet’ cards, and 46 vocabulary cards. The spelling rules and sounds used have been chosen based on data from multiple spelling assessments.

Love Literacy Mount Maunganui Vision:

At Love Literacy Mount Maunganui:-

  • We believe every akonga has the right to read, write and spell in order to succeed in life.

  • We believe the right to read, write and spell should not be left to chance.

  • We pride ourselves on creating a secure, respectful learning space.

  • Teaching practice is based on the Science of Reading and implemented through a Structured Literacy learning approach following a scope and sequence.

  • We use and create quality learning resources based on the principles of Structured Literacy.

  • We believe in teaching akonga the way the brain is wired to learn. It’s important to us to bring empathy and encouragement, and provide a safe landing place for akonga to learn.