ESTABLISHING A SUCCESSFUL ENVIRONMENT
Northfield Reads and Counts Tutor Program
• Establish rapport with students
• Develop a healthy environment both personally and academically
• Helping give students the assistance and tools for success
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Spend a little time each session “catching up”
Create supportive and non-judgmental environment
• Positive, Calm, Assured, Encouraging
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Positive Feedback
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Never respond by simply saying “good job”
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Respond to right answers with another question
• You did excellent sounding out that word, what do you think that word means?”
Great Tutoring ≠ Feeding Answers
Be proactive
• Motivate. Encourage. Inspire.
ACADEMIC RELATIONSHIPS
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Discuss BEING PREPARED for class (bringing notebook, pencil, textbook)
Discuss practicing good listening skills in class
• Good study skills
Review ideas and concepts from previous sessions
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Help your students learn how to learn.
• Provide tools
• Assist in finding resources – media center, making flash cards, etc.
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Use student experience to assist
• Make material relatable!
• Skittles/apples for probability, chocolate bar for fractions
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Great Tutoring ≠ Feeding Answers
• Your students “hold the pencil” – Don’t do their work, always try to end on
successful note
HOW STUDENTS LEARN
Students have learning styles that are as different as DNA!
Majority of Children Learn in 3 Different Styles:
1. Visual Learning
- Have to see to understand
2. Aural Learning
- Learn by verbal cues and instruction
3. Kinesthetic Learning
- Hands-on learners
TUTORING MATH
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Break down math concepts into smaller parts
Walk through problems step-by-step together
• Write and complete additional sample problems together
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Explain concepts within a context of interest
• Apples/Skittles to discuss probability
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Cater to the 3 Styles of Learning
• Visual – charts, pictures, figures
• Verbal – Talking through formulas and word problems
• Kinesthetic – using coins for percentages or decimals
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Provide more than one way of solving problems/equations
TUTORING IN READING
• Give your Students Context
• Before you Read
• Identify Key Elements of the Story
• Title
• Author
• Characters
• Setting
• Make Predictions
• Look at Cover Art and hypothesize plot
WORD RECOGNITION
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Break down words into smaller parts (Word Chunking)
• Prefix and Suffix
• Consonant Sounds
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Use Picture Clues
• Word-to-picture associations
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Apply Common Phonic Rules
• Words with Silent –e
• Cake, Bake, Dive, Home
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Apply Stylistic Learning
• Using Finger to cover up parts of word (Visual)
• Use finger to spell and sound out words
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Read it Again!
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Use Context Clues
READING COMPREHENSION
• Make Predictions Before Reading
• Cover Art, Chapters, Pictures
• Ask Questions
• Students make Pre-Reading questions based on Predictions
• Have students write down questions as they read
• Make a Book Map
• Characters
• Setting
• Events
READING COMPREHENSION
• Be Cognitive Coaches
• As Open-Ended Questions with multiple answers
• Make students form opinions
• Make Story Relatable
• Do the characters learn something you’ve learned in school?
• Are Characters Similar to people in “Real Life?”
TUTOR STRATEGIES
Questions?