Welcome Reading Tutors!  Here are a few classic articles in the field of reading, as well as a collection of resources for tutoring. This page is a work in progress. Over the next few months, I will be adding articles and activities that I hope will support your work with children. 

ARTICLES

Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz

Catch Them Before They Fall by Joseph Torgesen

Tutoring Struggling Readers – Chapters 1 and 2
To read these chapters from The Complete Guide to Tutoring Struggling Readers by Fisher, Bates and Gurvitz, please “right click” and rotate the text clockwise.  

REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR READING TUTORS
Cracking the Alphabetic Code and Getting Print Off the Page

TUTORING RESOURCES
Fostering Fluency Manual

Getting Organized:
Play the Game of Fostering Fluency
Translate the Game Into A Lesson Plan – A Sample Form

Roll & Read – An Activity to Help Children Blend Letters Into Words
Patterns: CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC
Roll & Read
Roll & Read – Board 1
Roll and Read Board 2

TLC Add E – A game to practice the silent e pattern. 
TLC Add e Board
TLC add e word list

RAVE-O (An Adaptation for College Aged Tutors) 
Retrival, Automaticity, Vocabulary, Engagement with Language and Orthographic Fluency
RAVE-O – A Few Key Points

The RAVE-O/TLC Sequence
Fostering Fluency, The First 15 Sessions
Fostering Fluency, The Second 15 Sessions

Snippets and Poems to Accompany Letter Patterns and Core Words 

RAVE-O Onset and Rime Combinations

Word Races

Reading Aloud With Children 
Word Boxes and Collaborative Oral Reading

I Did Not Say You Stole My Red Hat!

Writing With Children

The following installments are taken from Peggy Kaye’s book,
Games for Writing.  They are well suited to our youngest tutees and will entertain both of you and you get to know one another and work on “putting pencil to paper.” 

Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye – Chapter 2 – Installment 1
Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye – Chapter 2 – Installment 2
Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye – Installment 3