Fifteen focused minutes with Mrs Mulgrew, Monday to Thursday, live on Zoom. Short daily sessions, perfectly matched to your child's concentration span — because consistency is what builds confident, lifelong readers.
Only six one-to-one places each term.
Mrs Amy Mulgrew
Primary school teacher · Founder of The Reading Room
One-to-one, live, four evenings a week — just your child and Mrs Mulgrew.
As a primary school teacher with over 15 years of experience, I truly believe the most wonderful gift you can give your child is reading with them every day. In today's busy world, with parents balancing work and family life, finding the time for quiet, meaningful reading moments can feel like an uphill battle.
That is exactly why I created The Reading Room. I am here to partner with you and bring that vital consistency back into your child's routine. Every Monday through Thursday, I will sit down with your child for a tailored 15-minute session — adding up to a full hour of dedicated tutoring each week. By breaking the time down into short, specific bursts, we perfectly match your child's natural concentration span, ensuring they stay engaged and excited to learn.
From nurturing early readers with daily phonics to exploring comprehension through level-appropriate texts that meet National Curriculum objectives, I adapt every minute to their unique needs. Consistent, daily support reaps incredible results — let's work together to nurture a lifelong love of reading in your child.
Every Reading Room session is entirely bespoke, tailored precisely to your child's individual needs. Drawing upon 15 years of primary teaching experience, I utilise a comprehensive pedagogical toolkit rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Because consistency is key to cognitive retention, each session delivers a highly focused, 15-minute burst of targeted instruction — with the time allocated to each element dynamically managed, both at the planning stage and fluidly within the session itself, to respond to your child's real-time progress. Grounded in the principles of purposeful repetition, these daily sessions target five core components:
I am highly experienced in delivering leading British literacy programmes, including Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised and Read Write Inc. To ensure continuity and accelerate progress, I align my instruction with the specific phonics scheme utilised by your child's school.
Vocabulary selection is fully individualised or mapped directly to our current text. Pre-teaching high-frequency words before reading builds immediate confidence. By utilising interleaving — spacing practice out across the week — we secure long-term retention, smoothly transitioning from word recognition to spelling as accuracy develops.
Fluent reading is a distinct skill that must be explicitly taught. Rather than just encouraging speed, I guide children to bridge the gap between word recognition and meaningful phrasing.
We explore the nuances of spoken language by focusing on tone, pitch, and pace. Teaching children how and why we emphasise specific words not only develops their expression but actively demonstrates and deepens their comprehension.
True understanding is woven into the fabric of every session. I systematically familiarise your child with standard reading comprehension question stems, using targeted, high-quality questioning throughout our reading to build robust analytical skills.
As an experienced educator, I know that the ages of 5 to 7 represent a critical window for establishing fundamental literacy. At this stage, learning to read demands immense cognitive effort; a child's working memory is easily overwhelmed as they simultaneously decode letters, blend sounds, and attempt to comprehend meaning.
To navigate this intense cognitive load, my programme utilises the spacing effect — a foundational principle in cognitive psychology demonstrating that short, distributed practice is vastly superior to infrequent, longer sessions for long-term retention.
By engaging in targeted 15-minute daily sessions, we systematically build automaticity in word recognition. This daily consistency frees up your child's limited cognitive capacity, allowing them to shift seamlessly from the mechanical labour of decoding to the fluid, expressive reading and deep comprehension that characterises confident readers.
Fifteen minutes is long enough for real, targeted teaching — and short enough that your child stays engaged and excited from the first minute to the last.
Four short sessions spread across the week beat one long weekly lesson for long-term retention — that's the spacing effect at work.
As word recognition becomes automatic, cognitive capacity is freed for expression and deep comprehension — the hallmarks of a confident reader.
Four one-to-one sessions each week — a full hour of dedicated tutoring with an experienced primary teacher.
Only six one-to-one places each term.
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