Project Pigeon's tutoring services are currently centered around preparing elementary level students for the upcoming State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) by focusing on Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). This will consist of mentorship surrounding basic subjects such as Math, English, Writing, and Science.
We also include programs for ESL children to receive individual attention from our volunteers.
Grades 1, 2 & 3 Focus
- Developing foundational language skills- understanding vocabulary, thinking critically, and becoming familiar with various types of texts
- Learning to form ideas using multiple texts
- Understanding author's purpose and craft
- Using elements of writing to compose text around personal experiences, informational subjects, and persuasive topics
- Familiarizing with numerical operations, numbers up to 100,000, fractions, two-dimensional figures, and basic financial literacy
Grade 4 Focus
- Recognizing and analyzing literary elements across traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts
- Understanding how author's choices influence meaning within texts
- Revising and editing text
- Composing written text with a claim, organization, and development
- Getting comfortable with numerical representations, computations, geometry and measurement, data analysis, and personal financial literacy
Grade 5 Focus
- Explaining structure of ideas within texts
- Recognizing characteristics of different styles of text
- Creating and developing a logical flow of ideas in writing
- Using operations with decimals, representing equatrions with graphs & tables, simplifying expressions, and geometry
- Exploring science concepts related to matter and energy, organisms, and scientific investigation