Help a Child Learn to Read Cheatham, Judy B.

Help reading tutors work with children using LVA's new Help a Child Learn to Read. This manual addresses best practices for tutoring children, appropriate children's books, assessment and instruction, working with the classroom teacher, adaptation of content-area materials to tutoring situations, age appropriateness and its relatonship to tutoring, working with the limited-English proficiency (LEP) child; emerging literacy (with appropriate children's writings), responsibilities and legal issues, and documentation.

Judy Cheatham is the Campbell Professor of Writing and Professor of English at Greensboro College, North Carolina. The author of Small Group Tutoring: A Collaborative Approach for Literacy Instruction, and coauthor of TUTOR 7 and Whole Langage for Adults, she has been active in family and workplace literacy since 1986. She has conducted adult and family literacy projects underwritten by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and the Kentucky Literacy Commission. In her literary work, Dr. Cheatham has trained thousands of tutors across the country.

At Greensboro College, Dr. Cheatham teaches linquistics, Modern English, composition, American and women's literature, and three pedagogy coursees (The Pedagogy of Middle Grades Language Arts, the Pedagogy of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and the Pedagogy of English, Grades 9-12.); she also is involved with training, planning and supervising in the College's extensive field experience and tutoring programs offered through the Teacher Education Program. She sits on the Lindley Elementary School PTA board, the Grimsley High School advisory committee, the LVA local affiliate Reading Connections board, and the O. Henry Festival board, serving in 1998 as chair.

A teacher since 1973, Dr. Cheatham lives in Greensboro with her husband, George, and two children, Dayton and Sarah Hampton.