Structured English support for children and teenagers
Thoughtful English lessons for learners aged 5 - 17 years old, shaped around their learning goals. Support can include phonics, reading comprehension, writing skills, expanding vocabulary, grammar, creative writing, and exam preparation.
English support shaped around the child's learning goals
Arina works with children and teenagers in a structured, attentive, and age-appropriate way. Lessons are shaped around the learner’s current learning goals, school context, and the specific skills that need attention.
Support may include phonics, writing skills, reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, creative writing, and communication skills. Support also includes preparation for entrance examinations in English or help with a particular area of difficulty. The aim is to make learning clearer and more manageable, and helping the child build the skills they need over time.
For parents looking for careful, structured English support
This is suitable if your child needs help with:
- early reading, phonics, and vocabulary
- writing discrete sentences, descriptions, whole stories, or persuasive texts
- reading comprehension and building world knowledge
- sentence structure which includes grammar and punctuation
- English at primary or secondary level
- creative writing for independent schools’ entrance examinations in English
- building confidence, staying focused and improving organisational skills at school
- addressing specific school requirements and exam preparation
Phonics, vocabulary, reading, and early writing taught through structured activities
For younger children, English support may include phonics, early reading, vocabulary, handwriting, sentence building, and simple writing tasks. Lessons make use of art techniques, objects, movement, flashcards, modelling, mind-maps and carefully chosen interactive activities to help children understand and remember the language.
The activities are not used simply to make the lesson playful. They are chosen to support a specific skill, such as recognising sounds, blending words, remembering vocabulary, forming letters, or beginning to organise ideas in writing.
Phonics
Practising recognising sound-letter correspondence and sound patterns through reading, writing, drawing, movement, and visual tasks.
CVC words
Reading, writing, and saying simple consonant-vowel-consonant words to practise decoding and build confidence.
Vocabulary
Learning and using new words with the help of objects, pictures, labels, drawing, and meaningful repetition.
Flashcards and memory
Using flashcards and simple recall tasks to help children remember and use new vocabulary more confidently.
Phase 3 sounds
Practising digraphs such as ch, ph, th, and wh through clear examples and structured activities.
Early writing
Supporting children as they move from words and short phrases towards clearer sentences and writing down their own ideas.
Support for writing and reading English at school
For older primary and secondary learners, lessons can focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, sentence control, paragraphing, creative writing, literary techniques, and carefully crafting written responses.
Arina helps learners understand what the task requires, organise their ideas more clearly, and develop the language needed to express those ideas in writing or speech.
Focused preparation for school English and creative writing tasks
Arina can support children preparing for school-entry English tasks, including creative writing, stories based on image prompts, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, and writing under time conditions.
For creative writing, children may work on developing characters, organising a story, using dialogue, describing setting, and putting ideas on paper with more structure. The aim is to help the child understand the writing process, not simply memorise a formula.
If you are enquiring about school entrance exam preparation, please include your child’s age, the school or exam, the test date, and any information you have about the English task.
A clear structure with age-appropriate teaching
English support begins by understanding the child’s age, current level, school context, confidence, and the specific skills that need attention. Arina then shapes the lessons around clear learning goals, with age-appropriate tasks, careful guidance, and feedback that helps both the child and parent understand what is being worked on.
Arina begins by understanding the child’s age, current level, school context, confidence, and the areas that need support.
Lessons are shaped around specific skills, such as phonics, reading, vocabulary, writing, grammar, comprehension, or creative writing.
The child works through carefully chosen tasks with explanation, modelling, practice, and feedback. Parents can also receive updates where appropriate.
English support grounded in teaching experience and child development
Arina has experience teaching children and teenagers across primary and secondary stages. Depending on the child's priorities, she focuses on phonics, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, grammar, creative writing, addressing school requirements in English, and entrance-exam preparation.
Her work with younger learners is structured but responsive. Lessons are shaped around the child’s age, current learning objectives, and school context. She sets clear learning aims and provides feedback for parents.
Primary and secondary English
Support across Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, and Key Stage 4.
Entrance exam preparation
Experience preparing learners for school entrance exams, such as admission to The Perse School Cambridge.
Safeguarding
DBS Update Service is held.
Parents value the structure, feedback, and care
Comments from parents whose children worked with Arina on school English, writing, and school entrance exam preparation.
“My son says Arina explains things clearly and helps him build confidence to think beyond his usual limits. She provides high-quality exercises for homework, offers constructive feedback during lessons, and always takes time to appreciate his efforts and progress.”
“Arina helped my son with English writing. She was well prepared for her lessons and provided many useful resources for study.”
“Arina’s approach suits our children very well. She is calm, patient, kind, and clearly understands how to teach children of this age. Both children have noticeably increased confidence in their work.”