Institute of Reading Development Tutoring

Institute of Reading Development Tutoring offers weekly live tutoring with expert teachers, with the option to choose small group or 1-on-1 tutoring. Students take part in a baseline reading assessment, weekly skill checks, and quarterly progress reports for quarterly subscribers. Tutoring activities include letter recognition, phonics, sight words, read-alouds with guided comprehension, guided reading, decoding longer words using vowel teams, prefixes, and suffixes, fluent and expressive reading, understanding characters, structure, and motivations, multisyllabic decoding using prefixes, suffixes, and syllables, phrased and fluent reading, identifying main ideas, details, and themes, using context and word-solving strategies, and summarizing, monitoring, and analyzing text.

• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Each week brings a 50-minute tutoring session.
• Price: Weekly live tutoring for Pre-K-12th Grade starting at $49/week.

For 56 years, Institute of Reading Development Tutoring has focused on helping kids become strong, enthusiastic readers and has served over 3 million families. The program uses a research-based curriculum powered by the Science of Reading and is aligned with school classroom learning. Families can start with a 14-Day Test Drive and receive a 100% refund of payments if not thrilled before the start of the 3rd session, subject to stated conditions. Sessions use the same tutor at the same time each week, include a baseline assessment early in the program, weekly skill checks with instant results, and quarterly reassessment with a detailed progress report for quarterly subscribers. The program describes sessions as warm, encouraging, and very low-pressure, and states that mistakes are treated as part of learning. Institute of Reading Development Tutoring reports being featured on more than 508 news sites.

Parent feedback includes comments such as, “This program is a game-changer for any child struggling with reading! You will see a noticeable difference in how your child engages with books. It's worth every penny!” from Vanessa, parent of a 5th grader. Michele, parent of a kindergartner, reports that by the third week her child was grasping new sight words and by the fifth week her child said, “Mommy I can read!” and now reads one of the reading program books every night without being asked. Shana, parent of a 2nd grader, states that her son was already a strong reader and that the program took his reading to another level, with improvement in comprehension. Stephanie, parent of a kindergartner, reports that after being in the program, her child became a lot more confident and happier with reading.

Last updated August 8, 2026.