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Curriculum Guide from the Childrens Defense Fund: This after-school reading program is an especially helpful model for those interested in reaching out to black and Latino children. Read this article for more information about the curriculum, its contents and its philosophy.
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S.P.A.R.K. Peer Tutoring Project: The S.P.A.R.K. peer tutoring program stems from a similar successful program based in Wisconsin. This article describes the program and how to use the corresponding resources to train high school-age peer tutors.
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What Are We Trying to Achieve?: Bloom's Six Levels of Intellectual Skill Building: This tool can help teachers, tutors and child development professionals to evaluate students' intellectual abilities and to plan activities aimed at helping children to progress through each level of intellectual skill building.
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Bloom's Six Levels of Intellectual Skill Building: This chart features the six levels of children's intellectual development, as seen in "What Are We Trying to Achieve?: Bloom's Six Levels of Intellectual Skill Building."
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Overcoming Differences in Tutoring Relationships: Common Concerns and Solutions: Tutoring involves working closely with someone whose background or experiences may be vastly different from your own. Here, FASTEN lists six common concerns about differences in tutoring relationships, and presents solutions to overcoming those concerns.
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Possible Interview Questions for Volunteer Tutors: This tool can help you and potential tutors evaluate whether tutoring is an area in which the volunteer can use his gifts, abilities and experiences.
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 YET Center Programs: YET (Youth Education for Tomorrow) Centers, part of the Community-Serving Ministries program of Public/Private Ventures, provide daily, non-religious literacy instruction to children in the Philadelphia area. Learn more about YET Centers in this instructive overview.
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Recommended Books for After-School Programs, Grades K-3: Books are an important part of any tutoring program. This tool provides a listing of books that are especially appropriate for black and Latino children in grades kindergarten through three.
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Potential Training Topics for Volunteer Tutors: Good tutor training is essential to the success of your program. This tool will assist you to determine which topics should be addressed in training sessions for volunteers.
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Relationship Building Tips for Tutors and Tutees: Here are 6 quick, practical tips for building a productive, trusting tutoring relationship.
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 Tutoring Toolkit: Tools to Strengthen Your Tutoring Program: This toolkit features informative articles, program overviews, printable forms and resource lists to help the nonprofit tutoring program director recruit, train, inform and equip tutors.
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Volunteer Recognition Tips: Volunteers should be recognized for the selfless hours they spend working with struggling students. These ideas can help you to let your volunteers know how much they are appreciated.
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Twenty-Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Reading: Supplemental activities will enhance a reading program and engage the interest of students. These suggested activities may be used to help students master reading skills.
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Recommended Books for After-School Programs, Grades 4-5: These books are recommended by the Children's Defense Fund and have been identified as especially appropriate for Black and Latino children.
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Recommended Books
The Tutor Newsletter: A great resource for practical information for tutors and tutoring program directors, packed with relevant examples and covering issues such as help with homework, reading with struggling adolescents, and building partnerships with parents and teachers.
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Field Goals, a Manual for Tutors: Field Goals is a manual for tutors that provides a collection of goals and objectives that will help tutors establish effective tutoring plans for students.
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Recommended Links
National Service Resource Center: This Web site includes useful links to many online resources that would be helpful for starting and running literacy tutoring programs for children.
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Literacy Connections: Tips for Reading Teachers and Tutors: This Web site provides information about how children learn to read, articles about problematic or theoretical issues related to reading, and activities that tutors may use during tutoring sessions.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: This site contains a listing of resources, available either on-line or to order, which will help program coordinators start up and successfully run a volunteer tutoring program.
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