Designing a Successful Tutoring Session for Struggling Readers
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 119
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Designing a Successful Tutoring Session for Struggling Readers addresses how to design and deliver a successful one-on-one tutoring session tailored to the needs of struggling readers. Essential topics with implications for preparation of literacy tutoring sessions are addressed—response to intervention (RTI), components and organization of a tutoring session, word recognition and fluency strategies, comprehension strategies, writing strategies, content area with STEAM, use of technology, English Language Learners, and parent involvement. Current trends discussed include close reading, close writing, multimodal literacies, digital literacies, text complexity, and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) guidelines.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
Chapter 1: Discussion of Learning Theories and Response to Intervention (RTI)
History of National Education Laws
Book Focus and Organization
Role of Literacy Coaches
Reading Process and Major Theories of Reading Development
Views of Reading Instruction
The Concept of Response to Intervention (RTI)
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 2: Components of the Strategic Literacy Tutoring Session
Schedule, Location, and Literate Environment
Motivation
Who Are the Instructors for the Tutoring Sessions?
Components of a Strategic Literacy Tutoring Session
Planning Instruction
Student Literature Essentials in the Tutoring Session
Fiction and Nonfiction (Content-Area Texts and Information Texts)
Poetry
Anthologies of Poems for Students
Biographies
Series Books
Multicultural Books
Graphic Novels
Books for Drama
Social-Emotional Learning Books
Functional Reading Lessons
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 3: Word Recognition and Fluency Strategies
Focus on Word Recognition
Beginning Readers
Focus on Fluency
Fluency Strategies
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 4: Comprehension Strategies
Current Trends in Reading Comprehension
Best Practices for Comprehension Instruction
Research-based Comprehension Strategies
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 5: Written Composition
Concept of the Writing Process
Comparing Types of Writing
The Reading/Writing Connection
The Writing Workshop
Writing Strategies
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 6: Enriching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
Teachers Becoming Content-Area Literacy Providers
Learning in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Art
STEM and STEAM
Art Criticism and Description Lessons
Writing to Learn in the Content Areas
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 7: Use of Technology
Tools for New Literacies
Reading Online
Writing with Digital Tools
Assistive Technology
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 8: Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Learners with Special Needs in Reading
Federal Policies
Teaching Reading to Els
Teaching Writing to Els
Teaching Content Area to ELs
Assistive Technology for Els
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 9: Importance of Parent Involvement
Role of Reading Specialists and Tutors
Ideas for Increasing Parent Involvement
Parent Reading and Writing Support
Family Literacy Practices to Incorporate Diverse Cultural Values
Media Literacy Links between Home and School
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
Chapter 10: Authentic Assessment of Literacy
Using Classroom-Based Reading Assessments Focused on Reading Process and Reading Product
Assessing the “Other” Attributes
Balancing Formative and Summative Assessment
Assessing Online Reading
Summary
References
Activity Ideas
Social-Emotional Development
INDEX