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Tutor Ready Reading
Welcome to Tutor Ready: Resources for Tutoring Adults in Reading!
One of the four main components of reading is alphabetics. Alphabetics comprises two main subcomponent skills: phonemic awareness and word analysis, also known as decoding. In order to be successful with alphabetics, learners need to have developed each of these skills.
One of the four components of reading is fluency. There are three aspects of fluency: speed, accuracy, and phrasing and expression. In order to read fluently, learners need to have developed each of these aspects or skills.
One of the four main components of reading is vocabulary. Vocabulary refers to the words understood or used by a person. Vocabulary is a key to early literacy development and is a crucial component of reading comprehension at all levels.
One of the four main components of reading is comprehension. Understanding what we read is the purpose of reading anything. It’s critical that we explicitly teach learners at all reading levels a variety of specific comprehension strategies, one at a time, that they can use while they read.
Tutor Ready Writing
The authors of Tutor Ready Writing have gathered questions from adult literacy tutors across the United States and collected information from research as well as decades of tutoring experience to answer 22 common questions about tutoring writing.
Being afraid to write is common among adult learners. This fear and uncertainty can best be addressed by first making sure the learner feels respected, safe, and valued. It's important to develop a good rapport with the learner and maintain a nonjudgmental attitude. Your learner's fear of writing may not go away quickly, so it’s important to be patient and encouraging on an ongoing basis.
Being afraid to write is common among adult learners. This fear and uncertainty can best be addressed by first making sure the learner feels respected, safe, and valued. It's important to develop a good rapport with the learner and maintain a nonjudgmental attitude. Your learner's fear of writing may not go away quickly, so it’s important to be patient and encouraging on an ongoing basis.
This learning plan is intended for tutors who work with learners who have generally had limited or interrupted formal education in their native countries and are developing reading and writing for the first time while learning English.
