Why WtI?

Let's face it. Class size matters - especially now. Even if a student is lucky enough to go to a great school and have a great teacher, no teacher has the time to ask 30-plus students in a single class what they think about a text, to wait while students figure out what they want to say, to ask students individually if they understand what they are reading, or to give the explicit attention students need to advance their critical inquiry and academic writing.

• WtI helps students move beyond surface meaning to uncover the deeper implications of texts.

• WtI uses proven scaffolded  instruction in critical literacy developed over 15 years, created to reach even the most reluctant learners, or bring academically excelling students to the next level. 

• WtI helps college applicants stand out in a crowd, teaching students how to show who they are by creating vivid and impacting essays that showcase authentic voice and values. 

• The best writing teachers are teachers who write. With WtI your student gets a tutor with 30 years academic and professional writing experience.

• WtI instruction helps students develop the habits needed to create meaningful responses, including note-taking, annotation, and inference building.

• WtI instruction helps students create critically insightful  and engaging content, responsive to complex prompts and reading-based inquiry.

• WtI offers remote or safely considered in-person tutoring sessions with detailed feedback and follow-up.

• WtI integrates critical reading and writing instruction, because you can't have one without the other.

• WtI instruction is effective for any subject, teaching students content-based literacy, and effective argumentative analysis.