The Beehive Backyard Literacy and Play
Tutoring Center
Why pick this one
The Beehive provides small-group literacy instruction capped at five children, including phonics, decoding, fluency, and comprehension practice for K–2 learners.
Best for
- K–2 students needing summer reading practice
- Early elementary learners needing structured phonics and decoding support
- Pre-K children building letter sounds, rhyming, syllables, and phonemic awareness
- Families seeking literacy instruction combined with movement, sensory play, and storytelling
- Children needing personalized reading support in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, or Durham
Look elsewhere if
- Students seeking tutoring primarily beyond approximately 3rd grade
- Families needing emergency or same-day tutoring
- Families seeking large-group instruction
- Students needing subjects other than early literacy and reading support
Specialties
- Pre-K literacy play
- Summer reading support for kindergarten through 2nd grade
- Phonics and decoding instruction
- Fluency and comprehension practice
- Structured literacy instruction
Certifications
- Completed LETRS program accredited by the International Dyslexia Association
What makes them different
- Summer reading groups are capped at 5 children
- Summer sessions include phonics, decoding, fluency, comprehension, sensory play, and weekly take-home practice
- Sara holds a magna cum laude degree in Elementary Education from UNC Chapel Hill
- Sara taught K–2 classrooms for 8 years across North Carolina, Colorado, and Tennessee
- Reading instruction uses explicit, structured literacy methods informed by the Science of Reading
- Serves
- Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 3414 University Station Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
- Website
- http://www.beehivelearningnc.com/
- sarabshirk@gmail.com
Services
- Personalized reading support
- Small-group literacy enrichment classes
- Early learning programs
- Sensory play classes
- Take-home literacy practice with online support