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Links To Tutor Training: Thinking Aloud
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. One way to teach adults how good readers monitor their understanding is to show them how you do it. In other words, this technique is both a strategy for readers and an instructional approach you can use with any of the other comprehension strategies as well. Here's how it works:. Stopping to reread or restate a difficult section. Summarizing long sentences or other bits of text and putting them in your own words. Is that number two? It's ...
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Links To Tutor Training: Summarization
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. You may find some of the activities on the next few pages most appropriate for the better readers and critical thinkers in your class. Suggestions for first steps (introducing the underlying thinking skills to beginners) are also included. The topic of a paragraph is its subject, "the general category or class of ideas . . . to which the ideas of a passage as a whole belong" (Harris and Hodges, 1995, p. 258). The main idea of a paragraph i...
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Links To Tutor Training: Monitoring and repair strategies.
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. Monitoring and repair strategies. You also may teach specific strategies for solving comprehension problems (Davey, 1983; Kibby, n.d.). You describe and demonstrate the different kinds of problems that can arise while reading. Then, taking them one at a time, teach appropriate repair strategies, by modeling, providing guided practice, and independent practice. Examples of comprehension problems:. I can't read this word. Step 1: Read the se...
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. Find out how to help your student learn keyboarding skills on this site. Http:/ www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson1.html. Online Tutor Training Workshop. Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults: First Steps for Teachers, Susan McShane. This course was partially funded by Verizon. Click on Image to Return to Home Page. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. To gain an idea of the difficulties your student might experience at first, go to. And click on "Experience a Graphomotor Difficulty" or you may try the simple activity of writing your own name with your non-dominant hand. Watch letters being formed. Wwwmeddybemps.com/letterary/guide and archives.html. Create your practice sheets in PDF format for your student on this site. Click here. And follow the instructions on writing wizard.
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Links To Tutor Training: Question Answering
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. This strategy is a modification or expansion of the time-honored approach to comprehension: asking questions. Teachers ask questions during or after learners' reading, and learners may look back at the text to get the answers if they need to. The goal of question-answering instruction is to "aid students in learning to answer questions while reading and thus learn more from a text". Adult learners may not understand that readers are expect...
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. Making a clay mask. Online Tutor Training Workshop. Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults: First Steps for Teachers, Susan McShane. This course was partially funded by Verizon. Click on Image to Return to Home Page. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Links To Tutor Training: Story Structure
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. The idea of teaching story structure is based on the fact that all stories have similar features and all have plots that are organized into episodes. By analyzing a story's structure, the reader becomes aware of the important story elements, and this awareness facilitates comprehension and memory. To introduce this strategy you might begin with these five questions that represent the basic story elements (NICHD, 2000, p. 4-91). To make the...
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. Creating a Language Experience Story. Keeping in mind your student's reading goals, talk with her about a topic of interest to her - anything fascinating that happened at work, what she did with her family over the weekend, how she feels about the public transportation system, etc. Discuss the topic; then decide on a title for the story. Here's a sample Language Experience Story. Ask your student to reread the story, working on reading wit...
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Links To Tutor Training. Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. The Language Experience Approach (LEA). The LEA is a good way to begin writing with your student. LEA is not only a supportive way to develop language capabilities, but this activity develops immediate interest, as most students like to relate stories from their experiences. The Language Experience Approach With Adults:. Http:/ www.ericdigests.org/1993/approach.htm. For detailed directions in writing and LEA, go to ". Applying Research in ...
