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Literacy Tutoring

This training agenda covers the qualities of a good tutor, understanding why students struggle with reading, positive reinforcement techniques, pre-reading skills, teaching phonemes, reading skills, teaching sight words, effective use of flashcards, tips for reading aloud, and asking questions to enhance comprehension.

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Literacy Tutoring

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  1. Literacy Tutoring Mrs. Chang Peace Corps Volunteer

  2. Welcome & Introductions

  3. Training Agenda • What makes a good tutor? • What reading skills to children need? • What reading activities can I do at home?

  4. A Good Tutor • #1 Goal: Motivate students to want to read

  5. Why do students struggle with reading? • Learning disability • Different learning style • Absence from school • Little support at home • Fear or shame

  6. Positive Reinforcement • What positive and encouraging things can you say when the child gets something right? • What positive and encouraging things can you say or do, even when the child gets something wrong?

  7. A Good Tutor • Child-centered • Sensitive and respectful • Caring • Realistic • Enthusiastic • Encouraging • Commitment and patience

  8. Taking short-cuts

  9. Reading The Building Blocks

  10. Pre-Reading Skills • What is a sound? • What does “same” and “different” mean? • Letters vs. Numbers vs. Words • Sorting • Counting • Letters represent sounds

  11. Pre-reading Skills • Rhymes • First sound (phoneme) • Last sound • Middle sound • Blending sounds • Syllables • Sound manipulation

  12. More Pre-Reading Skills • Alphabet • Alphabet song • Spelling and writing your name • Writing and pointing out letters • Letter sounds/phonemes

  13. Phonemes • One sound • B,d,f,j,k,p,t,z • Hard and soft • C,g • Two or more sounds • S,w,y • Trouble letters • H,l,m,n,q,r,x • Short vowels • apple/ackee, elephant, iguana/igloo, octopus, umbrella • 2 Letters 1 Sound • Th, wh, ch, sh, ph

  14. Teaching Phonemes • Introduce with pictures and/or actions • Chants and songs • Flashcards

  15. Blending phonemes • Blending on your arm • Say it slowly, say it fast • Slide or train image

  16. Reading skills • Sounding out words • Sight words • Fluency • Comprehension

  17. Teaching sight words • Flashcards • Word search • Spelling (out loud or in writing) • Copying in writing • Bingo

  18. Effective Teaching with Flashcards • Word lists (Dolch, vocabulary) • 3 second rule • 3 to 5 words at a time • Repetition

  19. Tips for Reading Aloud • Good Pace • Involve the audience • Read Books at an Appropriate Level • Discuss and predict • What do you think this story will be about? • What do you think will happen next? Why do you think that? • What does it mean when it says “___”? • What just happened? • Be Expressive

  20. Questions for Stories • Self connections • That reminds me of… • That made me think of the time that… • I can relate… • Other text connections • This part is just like… • I read another book where… • World connections • This is like… • I know about this… but I didn’t know that.

  21. Children Reading WRAP UP AND QUESTIONS

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