Reading: Tutoring
A Typical Tutoring
Session
Today's
Snack: Take
5 cherry tomatoes, 6 half-circles cut from a zucchini, and 7 baby carrots, and
line them up in two rows making completely different color patterns. Then dip
veggies in a little ranch dip, and drench your throat with a big glass of
orange juice.
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Today's Supplies:
Plastic storage tub |
mailing label | spiral notebook
One "easy" picture book
| one book keyed to the student's interest that may be fiction or nonfiction |
one textbook page or old test from the student's classroom
2 sharpened No. 2
pencils | 1 sharpened red pencil
Index cards | large
(2"-3") binder ring | stickers, stamps
Paperback or used
dictionary
3-ring binder of
training materials,
including the Ayres
spelling list of high-frequency words,
the 30 rules of
spelling,
and a list of After
School Treats writing activities from this website
Paper copy of the
Reading Report Form
(next item posted in
this website's tutoring series)
The first and second tutoring
session will feature a brief ice-breaker activity so that the student and tutor
can learn each other's names and get to know one another a little bit. They may
get to tell one thing about themselves and ask one question of the other
person, for example.
For the rest of the half-hour,
here's the approximate schedule, with the record-keeping that the tutor should
record on the Reading Report (see the form below this article in the After
School Treats tutoring series menu).
In the tutoring tub, there will be
an easy-reading, old, familiar picture book or a copy of an Aesop's fable, a
Greek myth, or other basic piece of literature for children and youth. The
tutor and the student are to read this together. The tutor may wish to read the
first sentence, modeling good reading techniques, and have the student read the
next sentence. Or go paragraph-by-paragraph, or page-by-page. Or read together,
in unison. Or have one person read the first sentence EXCEPT the last word, and
then the other person reads that last word plus the next sentence EXCEPT its
last word, and so on. The point is, just read and enjoy the story together.
Shared
Reading (5 minutes)
Title + Author:
_____________________________________________________
Comments: _______________________________________________________
Next, the student should have
brought to the tutoring session something that he or she is reading for regular
classroom work, so that the tutor can help him or her go over it and build the
student's classroom confidence. This may be a page from a textbook or a story
the class is reading, a test the student just got back, a handout from science,
a fact sheet from social studies . . . whatever is in the student's backpack or
desk. If the student forgets to bring something curriculum-related to read, you
can skip this section and double up on your Challenge Reading, below.
Classroom
Chunk (5 minutes)
Textbook + Page #:
_________________________________________________
Comments: _______________________________________________________
Now take out your student's Spelling Deck -
index cards on which the student has written vocabulary words.
Spelling
Deck (5 minutes)
Word Cards Made:
_________________________________________________
Comments: _______________________________________________________
Writing
Notebook (5 minutes)
Writing Activity Selected:
___________________________________________
Challenge
Reading (5 minutes)
Title + Author:
_____________________________________________________
Comments: _______________________________________________________
A
Star and a Wish (5 minutes)
Praise/Suggestion for Student:
________________________________________
Praise/Suggestion for Tutor:
__________________________________________
