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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: __________________________________________

 

 

            By Susan Darst Williams www.AfterSchoolTreats.com Reading © 2010

 

           

 

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