- A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit is a soup-to-nuts guide that will empower those who want to help struggling readers. Starting with how to create a reading inventory to identify strengths and weaknesses, the toolkit goes on to provide lessons and materials for productive practice for the student. As a reading tutor myself, I know this book has everything needed to help young readers improve. Liz Jones Covert
- A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit is the definitive, most comprehensive textbook for instructors and parents who want to help struggling children advance in their reading skills. Learn how to analyze the student’s reading level, understand the root causes of common reading errors, and work through exercises that will help the student unlearn bad habits.
The first half of the book teaches you how to be an effective reading tutor through the creation of reading inventories for students. Reading inventories are critical to understanding how readers are comprehending-or not comprehending-a portion of text.
From word use to cause and effect, reading inventories will tell you exactly where students are struggling. Once you zero in on the problem areas, you’ll use the lessons and activities in the second part of this guide to improve the child’s skills and develop a reading level report for his or her teacher.
Whether you’re a tutor, a teacher’s assistant, a parent, or a student teacher, A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit is your essential guide to coaching struggling readers. And since advanced readers often outperform students in other areas, improving children’s reading gives them a gift they will benefit from for the rest of their lives. - Children who struggle with reading tend to struggle in other academic areas, and the key to reversing the tread is early intervention. For this reason, whether you’re a parent, a teacher, a tutor, or even a classroom volunteer, A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit should be an essential component of your reading-intervention arsenal.
This easy-to-follow and methodical guide shows you how to assess a child’s reading level and identify specific areas of difficulty. You’ll then see how to cure bad habits through simple, straightforward workbook exercises and develop the know-how to create a reading level report for the child’s teacher.
Catching reading problems at a young age and addressing them effectively is one of the best ways to get your young learner on a path to success. If your readers are struggling, let A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit be your guide to helping them become bookworms for life.
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