Download or read book The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers Mapping Interventions to Purpose and CCSS written by Peter J. Fisher and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists. In this comprehensive resource, they offer hands-on guidance for designing interventions across all grade levels, provide sample tutoring plans and lessons, and describe procedures for teaching print skills, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and study skills. Including many user-friendly features, this book will help both new and experienced reading specialists ramp up instruction to assist all students in meeting the new standards. Book Features: A powerful set of field-tested tutoring activities for use with individual students and small groups. Student Profiles that include a matrix that matches interventions to the CCSS. Sidebars with examples of how particular methods have been used with students of varying ability. Discussion Questions and Things to Think About at the end of each chapter. And much more! “If you are looking for a book that translates research and theory into practical and effective interventions for struggling readers please consider The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers.The authors have done a masterful job of guiding teachers in developing reading interventions that are authentic, engaging, aligned to current standards as well as the instructional needs of students, and based on state-of-the-art knowledge of reading instruction.” —Timothy Rasinski, professor of Literacy Education, Kent State University “This book is the outgrowth of years of developing and fine tuning tutoring models that have helped thousands of students become capable and engaged readers. The authors share a deep understanding of research on literacy intervention along with a wealth of experience in translating this into effective, and reflective, practice. The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers is a must for every educator who works with or designs programs for struggling readers.” —Camille Blachowicz, co-director, The Reading Leadership Institute, professor emeritus, National College of Education, National Louis University Peter J. Fisher is a professor of education at National College of Education of National Louis University (NLU). Ann Bates is a literacy educator who has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and assistant professor of Reading and Language at NLU. Debra J. Gurvitz directs the NLU Chicago campus off-site summer reading improvement program.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers written by Peter Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists. In this comprehensive resource, they offer hands-on guidance for designing interventions across grades K 8, provide sample tutoring plans and lessons, and describe procedures for teaching print skills, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and study skills. Including many user-friendly features, this book will help both new and experienced reading specialists ramp up instruction to assist all students in meeting the new standards.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers written by Peter J. Fisher and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The authors offer hands-on guidance for designing interventions across all grade levels, provide ample tutoring plans and lessons, and describe procedures for teaching print skills, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and study skills.
Download or read book Book Buddies Third Edition written by Marcia Invernizzi and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable guide has been revised and expanded with the latest research and guidance for working with learners with reading challenges, including dyslexia. The book shows how reading tutors--including educators, volunteers, and parents--can deliver individualized lessons for struggling students in grades K–3. Chapters offer step-by-step guidance for providing effective one-on-one instruction at the emergent, beginning, and transitional stages of reading, and address the needs of English language learners. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the manual features 39 reproducible handouts and forms. Tutor training is facilitated by videos of sample sessions (at the companion website). The website also gives book purchasers access to downloadable copies of the handouts and forms. New to This Edition *More explicit recommendations for addressing the needs of children with dyslexia. *New phonemic awareness task to use in assessment. *Expanded and clarified directions for many of the lessons. *Additional instructional activities, including reproducible FastRead sheets. *Reproducible tools and training videos now provided online.
Download or read book The Howard Street Tutoring Manual written by Darrell Morris and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable manual provides a comprehensive guide to one-on-one instruction for struggling readers in grades 1 to 3. The book addresses the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of setting up a volunteer or professional tutoring program, supplies assessment guidelines and reproducible forms, and presents in-depth case studies that demonstrate the nuts and bolts of tutoring three children at different stages of early literacy over an entire school year. Case study chapters offer clear descriptions of lesson plans, instructional activities, and informal assessment procedures, illustrated with realistic examples of student work.
Download or read book Book Buddies written by Francine R. Johnston and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-04-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volunteer tutors can make a tremendous difference in the reading skills and the lives of young children. This comprehensive tutorial manual has been developed from the Book Buddies program of Charlottesville, Virginia, the first large-scale model to mobilize hundreds of community volunteers in an alternative one-on-one intervention for children at risk for reading failure. A complete how-to resource for both trainers and tutors in one accessible volume, the book provides guidelines for setting up a successful tutorial program in the early grades and presents a field-tested lesson format for individualized instruction in reading, writing, and phonics. The authors clearly describe how to conduct a wealth of enjoyable reading activities and exercises with students, illustrating each chapter with real-life examples and lively line drawings. Appendices feature reproducible assessment and lesson planning forms, alphabet cards and charts, recommendations and sources for children's books and other materials, and a helpful glossary.
Download or read book A Classroom Teacher s Guide to Struggling Readers written by Curt Dudley-Marling and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plus A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Readers has a complete discussion on how to help students even when you are locked into a basal program."--Jacket.
Download or read book Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Readers Grades 3 5 written by University of Texas. Center for Reading & Language Arts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook includes 60 lessons for supplemental reading instruction designed specifically for students who experience persistence reading difficulties. Instructional elements of each lesson are fluency, word study, instructional reading and writing. Activities are research-based, explicit and intensive.
Download or read book Designing a Successful Tutoring Session for Struggling Readers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tutoring Adolescent Readers written by Deborah P. Berrill and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tutoring Adolescent Readers shows teachers how to reap the benefits of one-to-one teaching by using volunteer tutors. It provides the information you need to incorporate a tutoring program that addresses a variety of student needs -- from students who are unmotivated or have different learning styles to those learning English for the first time or who have a learning disability. Teachers will learn everything they need to create an effective tutoring program that supports classroom instruction.Setting up a tutoring program -- from defining the roles and responsibilities of tutors to recruiting and training volunteers;Working with dependent readers -- from identifying readers who need more help to tips for dealing with the specific learning needs and styles of students;Using explicit instruction -- from encouraging tutors to recognize where students are and how to set goals to monitor and assess student progress;Promoting fluency and word recognition -- from teaching cueing systems and modeling effective reading strategies to using specialized techniques for introducing and reviewing decoding skills. Resources that teachers can copy and use with tutors are an important part of this handy resource. These materials explain the essentials of reading instruction and investigate the variety of techniques that good readers use.
Download or read book A Reading Tutor s Toolkit written by Jean Schaber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reading Tutor's Toolkit is the definitive, most comprehensive textbook for instructors and parents who want to help struggling children advance in their reading skills. Learn how to analyze the student's reading level, understand the root causes of common reading errors, and work through exercises that will help the student unlearn bad habits. The first half of the book teaches you how to be an effective reading tutor through the creation of reading inventories for students. Reading inventories are critical to understanding how readers are comprehending-or not comprehending-a portion of text. From word use to cause and effect, reading inventories will tell you exactly where students are struggling. Once you zero in on the problem areas, you'll use the lessons and activities in the second part of this guide to improve the child's skills and develop a reading-level report for his or her teacher. Whether you're a tutor, a teacher's assistant, a parent, or a student teacher, A Reading Tutor's Toolkit is your essential guide to coaching struggling readers. And since advanced readers often outperform students in other areas, improving children's reading gives them a gift they will benefit from for the rest of their lives.
Download or read book Teaching the Struggling Reader written by Barbara R. Schirmer and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative resource for literacy teachers,Teaching the Struggling Reader takes a novel approach to instruction--the reading program is based on the needs of the struggling reader, rather than the other way around. Most teachers plan their reading lesson and then work in the needs of a struggling reader. This book is for teachers looking for a more contemporary and inclusive way to teach reading. Starting with assessment, the author shows you how to group readers by ability and need rather than by risk factors. Finally, you will save planning time by learning how to incorporate strategies that you already know into developing your lesson, rather than changing your style to accommodate the requirements of a particular reading program.
Download or read book Smart a Reading Tutor s Guide written by Sylvia Keepers and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SMART! A Reading Tutor's Guide is a complete handbook for adults who want to help teens excel at reading and learning. SMART! is also an indispensable aid in setting up a tutoring practice. It covers all aspects of individual reading instruction from word recognition through in-depth understanding at the advanced high-school level. With this guide, any educated person, even if one who has never taught before, can help teens read well, love reading, and become motivated, independent learners. While this book focuses on teaching teens, its use isn't confined to one age group. Teachers who work with younger children are using the ideas in SMART! to help their students become more confident, enthusiastic readers. At the same time, instructors of college students and adults will find practices here to help their students master the demands of higher level academic reading. High-quality tutoring transforms students' lives. As a tutor for more than three decades, Sylvia Keepers has had the opportunity and pleasure of playing a part in hundreds of such transformations. Teens and children no one had been able to help before now succeed regularly in school and in life as a result of her efforts. In SMART!, Sylvia shares winning practices, attitudes, and tips that will allow other tutors to experience a new level of success with their own students. Target information for this title: SKU: 0988532018 - Format: B&W 7.5 x 9.25 in or 235 x 191 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
Download or read book A Tutoring Primer written by Julie L. Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tutoring Primer: Reading with K-6 Struggling Readers, English Learners, and Families has been developed for tutors in teacher education programs who have little or no knowledge of reading and writing instruction. The book provides foundational knowledge in content, pedagogy, and assessment that can be quickly accessed, understood, and applied. The book is organized into five parts, each of which can stand alone. It begins with definitions of literacy, and how language and literacy are acquired by young children. Part II highlights specific areas of reading and writing, and how to teach and assess each area. Part III focuses on reading pedagogy, while Part IV is devoted to writing. Each include lesson plans and ideas for adapting instruction. The final section covers communicating with families. A Tutoring Primer includes video links that provide clear examples of instruction and assessment, as well as case studies. The text is ideal for introductory literacy methods courses, or any class with a service learning component. It can also be used by school districts to provide training for aides and volunteers.
Download or read book Leveled Books K 8 written by Irene C. Fountas and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.
Download or read book Help for Struggling Readers written by Michael C. McKenna and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a variety of of research-based instructional strategies for use with struggling readers in the grades three through eight.
Download or read book Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills written by Keith Topping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills is a very practical guide, offering a straightforward framework and easy-to-implement strategies to help teachers help pupils progress in reading. A succinct introduction, it shows how schools can make positive use of differences between pupils and turn them into effective learning opportunities. Outlining the evidence base supporting peer tutoring approaches, it explores the components of the reading process and explains how peer tutoring in reading can be used with any method of teaching reading. Core topics covered include: Planning and implementing peer tutoring Getting your school on board How to structure effective interaction Training peer tutors and tutees Paired Reading - cross-ability approaces One Book for Two - fostering fluency, reading comprehension, and motivation Reading in Pairs - cross and same-year tutoring Supporting struggling readers Involving families in peer tutoring Evaluation and feedback. Illustrated throughout with practical examples from diverse schools across Europe, Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills is an essential introduction offering easy-to-use guidelines that will support teachers in primary and secondary schools as they enhance pupil motivation and improve reading standards.
