They loved helping the children. They also identified with them. The children they were tutoring had the same reaction as the athletes. That was such an awakening to me. I was a particularly poor reader. I grew up in San Diego in the era of Dick and Jane readers, and I had a heck of a time learning to read in school. I was extremely embarrassed. All of a sudden--I remember the day--I made the connection between letters and sounds, thanks to a teacher.
They have a lot of empathy and patience. You have been studying the literacy development of young children from a low-income area in the Southeast. What are your findings so far? Oral language in preschool is very predictive of reading ability later on. One teacher I observed, whose pupils had particularly strong gains in vocabulary in kindergarten, was reading a book that described different types of houses around the world.
She said igloos were used by hunters in northern Canada. She showed Canada on a map. She also pointed to China, where other types of houses were. What have you seen? When a child is having difficulty recognizing a word, how the teacher handles the problem can be very significant. The teacher who encourages the child to look beyond the initial consonant and to use the letter-sounds he knows is starting that child on the first step to pattern recognition of words.
Kids who went into first grade not knowing all the letters of the alphabet really depended on the teacher and a letter-by-letter decoding of phonics strategy. The wide reading of rich texts and extensive development of knowledge and vocabulary is really where we want all our kids. To meet the different needs of individual children really requires a huge amount of knowledge from a teacher.
The teacher is the critical link. A native Hoosier, she became a Metro reporter after many years as a Business writer and editor. All Sections. About Us.
B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Using one-to-one tutoring within inclusive general education classrooms to … Expand. View 3 excerpts, cites background. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of a tutoring intervention provided by community tutors to kindergarten students at risk for reading difficulties.
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Strategies and characteristics of effective one-to-one literacy tutors. Effectiveness of an extracurricular program for struggling readers: A comparative study with parent tutors and volunteer tutors. Abstract This study reviews the effectiveness of an extracurricular paired reading program to enhance the reading of struggling readers.
For the first time, two program conditions are compared within … Expand. The effects and characteristics of family involvement on a peer tutoring programme to improve the reading comprehension competence. The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of an educational programme involving peer tutoring at school and family tutoring at home on child reading comprehension achievement in … Expand.
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This study investigated the effects of reading a series-format many-volumed story to disadvantaged first graders. Experimental and control classes were chosen randomly from the same school. Children … Expand. Cross-age reading: A strategy for helping poor readers. Perhaps the best testament to the power of … Expand. Comparing instructional models for the literacy education of high-risk first graders THIS TUDY was designed to examine the effectiveness of Reading Recovery as compared to three other instructional … Expand.
Sources of Individual Differences in Reading Acquisition. Sources of individual differences in reading achievement were investigated in a longitudinal study of children, A variety of individual attributes covering prereading abilities, oral language … Expand.
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