Training the Reading Team: A Guide for Supervisors of a Volunteer Tutoring Program - Softcover

Walker, Barbara J.; Scherry, Ronald; Morrow, Lesley Mandel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872072495 ISBN 13: 9780872072497

Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn, 1999

Synopsis

A companion volume to Lesley Mandel Morrow and Barbara J. Walker's "The Reading Team", this book guides supervisors of a volunteer reading program through each step of a tutor-training program: from publicizing the program, to recognizing the roles of each reading team member, to training volunteers in how to tutor young students effectively. Based on a successful program developed by one of the authors, the book provides easy-to-reproduce overheads and handouts and a script-like explanation of activities to do with tutors in training sessions. The book also contains sample forms and letters to help with implementation and evaluation of the tutoring program.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Training a team of volunteers to tutor children in reading is a rewarding experience, but organizing a volunteer tutoring program is quite and undertaking, no matter how motivated you are or how committed to the cause. "Training the Reading Team: A Guide for Supervisors of a Volunteer Tutoring Program" provides guidance and practical information to those who want to tackle the volunteer tutoring challenge.

The book's three sections take supervisors through each step of a volunteer tutoring program, from publicizing the program and obtaining funding, to establishing and recognizing the roles of each team member, to training volunteers in how to tutor young students effectively, to assessing each student's and tutor's progress. Based on a successful program developed by one of the authors, the book contains a script-like explanation of each tutor training session. In the appendixes, there are numerous black line masters of overheads and handouts for the training sessions, as well as sample forms and letters to help implement and evaluate the tutoring program.

This book expands on the tutoring strategies set forth in Morrow and Walker's "The Reading Team: A Handbook for Volunteer Tutors K-3 and is an essential guide for any reading professional planning to create and supervise a volunteer tutoring program. Even if you have already implemented a program in your school or community, this comprehensive guide will help you train your reading team for tutoring success.

About the Author

Barbara J. Walker is a professor at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. Ronald Scherry is Principal of McKinley School in Billings, Montana, USA. Lesley Mandel Morrow is a professor of reading and early childhood education at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0872072495
• ISBN 13: 9780872072497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136