MRS. CHANGPEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER

Literacy Tutoring

&INTRODUCTIONS

Welcome

Training Agenda

What makes a good tutor?

What reading skills to children need?

What reading activities can I do at home?

A Good Tutor

#1 Goal: Motivate students to want to read

Why do students struggle with reading?

1.Learning disability2.Different learning style3.Absence from school4.Little support at home5.Fear or shame

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?

A Good Tutor

Child-centeredSensitive and respectfulCaringRealisticEnthusiasticEncouragingCommitment and patience

Taking short-cuts

THE BUILDING BLOCKS

Reading

Pre-Reading Skills

What is a sound?What does “same” and “different” mean?Letters vs. Numbers vs. Words

Sorting Counting

Letters represent sounds

Pre-reading Skills

RhymesFirst sound (phoneme)Last soundMiddle soundBlending soundsSyllablesSound manipulation

More Pre-Reading Skills

Alphabet Alphabet song Spelling and writing your name Writing and pointing out letters

Letter sounds/phonemes

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

Teaching Phonemes

Introduce with pictures and/or actionsChants and songsFlashcards

Blending phonemes

Blending on your armSay it slowly, say it fastSlide or train image

Reading skills

Sounding out wordsSight wordsFluencyComprehension

Teaching sight words

FlashcardsWord searchSpelling (out loud or in writing)

Copying in writingBingo

Effective Teaching with Flashcards

Word lists (Dolch, vocabulary)3 second rule3 to 5 words at a timeRepetition

Tips for Reading Aloud

Good PaceInvolve the audienceRead Books at an Appropriate LevelDiscuss 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

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.

Children Reading

WRAP UP AND QUESTIONS