Tips for the Reading Team: Strategies for Tutors - Softcover
Synopsis
This resource puts the teaching ideas right where tutors need them. Continuing work they did in the award-winning book "The Reading Team: A Handbook for Volunteer Tutors K-3", editors Walker and Morrow assemble practical tutoring tips in response to the America Reads Challenge and the increasing emphasis on using volunteer tutors to help all children learn to read. From the International Reading Association's journal "The Reading Teacher", the activities and suggestions included in this easy-to-use book are classroom tested and come with specific instructions for each strategy.
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Where can tutors turn for proven instructional techniques in a hurry? How can teachers explain their strategies in terms that tutors can understand? "Tips for the Reading Team: Strategies for Tutors" puts the teaching ideas right where tutors need them. Continuing the work they did in the award-winning book "The Reading Team: A Handbook for Volunteer Tutors K-3," editors Barbara J. Walker and Lesley Manel Morrow respond to the America Reads Challenge and the increasing emphasis on using volunteer tutors to help all children learn to read by assembling practical tutoring tips.
From the International Reading Association's journal "The Reading Teacher," the activities and suggestions included in this easy-to-use book are classroom tested. Teachers and tutors will find specific instructions for each strategy. Illustrations throughout indicate in what part of the tutoring session each strategy is most helpful.
Sections Include: Motivating Readers Figuring Out Words Reading Together and Rereading Supporting Understanding
Joining the growing team of volunteer tutors will be easier and more rewarding because of this useful book. Tutors will want to refer to this valuable resource during their training and lesson planning, and as they go to tutoring sessions.
About the Author
Barbara J. Walker is a professor at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
Lesley Mandel Morrow is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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- PublisherIntl Literacy Assn
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0872071901
- ISBN 13 9780872071902
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
- EditorWalker Barbara J., Morrow Lesley Mandel
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