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For Corporate and
Individual Volunteer Tutors
Tutoring Basics
Provides a general overview
of the tutoring process, and addresses the needs of learners
of varying ages and abilities. Identifies major differences
in tutoring adults and youth, the challenges involved in
working with each group, and rates of success.
Building Literacy Skills in
Children
Focuses on the unique
literacy needs of children, and provides tutors with
strategic approaches to promote success. Includes contact
information for agencies that need tutors and placement
assistance as needed.
Building Literacy
Skills in Adults
Describes the
unique literacy needs of adults and the numerous barriers to
entrance and retention encountered in literacy programs.
Presents strategies that engage and meet the needs of adult
learners. Includes contact information for agencies that
need tutors and placement assistance as needed.
Building Literacy
Skills in Adolescents
Addresses literacy needs
unique to adolescents, and identifies a variety of literacy
strategies that promote learning in this population.
Includes contact information for agencies that need tutors
and placement assistance as needed.
Workforce Literacy
Presents literacy development
options in the context of the particular workplace.
Explains a range of strategies tailored to the site and
ideas for implementation.
Reading Strategies
Encourages participants
to utilize experiential activities and techniques to
strengthen and reinforce basic skills training for youth and
adults.
For Agency Staff
and Volunteers
Introduction to “Lit
Kits for Kids”
Offers a hands-on approach to
reviewing the goals, contents, and methods for using the
“Lit Kits” materials by tutors of children in the elementary
grades.
Integrating Volunteers
into Your Agency
Provides best practices for
incorporating and retaining confident and effective tutors
and volunteers in an agency. Includes a manual with useful
and reproducible forms and documents.
Individualized
In-service Training
Tailors training to the
specific needs and goals of the target audience. Focuses on
specified areas in need of development.
For Parents
The Three R’s: Raising Real Readers
(a two-part series)
Provides parents with
encouragement and strategies for supporting a child’s
literacy development. Focuses on the importance of skill
reinforcement in the home and activities to enhance a
child’s learning process. Presents each family with a new
child’s book and materials to improve literacy skills.
Reading Tips for Parents
Introduces a variety of
strategies for getting started, setting goals, and keeping
records of literacy activities at home. Reviews over 30
literacy-based activities that parents can do with their
children to enhance and supplement classroom instruction.
Summer Reading
Strategies
Gives parents adaptable
techniques to reinforce reading skills over the summer
months. Offers goal setting and record keeping ideas, and
literacy-based games and activities in a fun and interactive
session.
For Education
Students and Faculty
Integrating Volunteers into the Classroom
Provides school personnel
with tips and strategies for integrating volunteer tutors
into the classroom. Includes a discussion on the need to
provide goals for tutors and to clarify expectations. Also
includes suggestions for tutor supplies.
For Librarians and Others
Child Development
Consists of presentations at
four age levels that include an overview of general and
popular theories of development, and the social,
intellectual, emotional, and physical characteristics found
at each level. Gives suggestions to best meet the needs of
children at each of the following developmental stages:
1. Birth to Age Two
2. Preschool
3. School Aged
4. Adolescents/Early Teens
For Students
Preparing for
Achievement Tests
Offers school children useful
tips and strategies that ease anxiety and help them do their
best when preparing for and taking the achievement tests.
Provides a light-hearted approach as it actively engages the
children to reinforce test-taking skills that are being
addressed by the classroom teacher.
Peer Tutoring
Focuses on the unique
challenges faced by students tutoring individuals of a
similar or slightly younger age, and offers techniques and
strategies to establish an effective tutoring relationship. |
