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Volunteer

What You'll Do

After you've had training and been matched with a child, you will start tutoring.

As a Tutor, You Will:

  • encourage your student,

  • build a trusting, positive relationship and

  • inspire your student's excitement about reading, learning and the world.


Here's How a Tutoring Session Works (45 minutes):

  1. Pick up your ready-to-go materials.  The box includes your student's course of tutoring lessons for the year, the current lesson, and a place for you to record notes about each session with your student.

  2. Greet your student and spend a few minutes checking in.

  3. Help your student choose a book to take home. Check in about how reading is going at home.  When your student finishes a book, he'll give you a short book report as his ticket to select a new book and get recognition for his progress.

  4. Read aloud from a book of your student's choice (5-10 minutes).  Before, during and after reading, discuss the book.  What does the setting in the story remind your student of?  What does it remind you of?  What does your student think the main character will do next? Etc.

  5. Guide your student through a lesson.  Each lesson takes one to two sessions to complete and contains these elements:

    • New skill or concept: Introduce a new skill and help your student with an exercise to practice the skill.

    • Student read aloud: Support your student as she reads aloud from one of the books in the lesson packet.  Discuss the book with your student.  What were her favorite parts?  What surprised her?

    • Skill or concept practice: Assist your student as he completes an exercise based on the book he read.

    • Vocabulary: While the student is reading, you will be jotting down words that are challenging or new to your student. Discuss some of these words.  Depending on your student's reading level, help him write a definition of the word and a sentence using the word.

    • Review: Review vocabulary to reinforce the material the student has learned in previous lessons.

  6. Say goodbye until the next time.