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The Howard Street Tutoring Manual: Teaching At-Risk Readers in the Primary Grades
This indispensable manual provides a comprehensive guide to one-on-one instruction for struggling readers in grades 1 to 3. The book addresses the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of setting up a volunteer or professional tutoring program, supplies assessment guidelines and reproducible forms, and presents in-depth case studies that demonstrate the nuts and bolts of tutoring three children at different stages of early literacy over an entire school year. Case study chapters offer clear descriptions of lesson plans, instructional activities, and informal assessment procedures, illustrated with realistic examples of student work.
243 pages, Paperback
Published January 6, 2005
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May 11, 2022
Excellent book.
August 11, 2014
It is probably impossible for me to be objective about this book. Full disclosure: I was in the second round of Howard Street tutors - its second year of existence - and the author is my mentor. That said, I want to review this from a different point than others may make.
The book is written with the same intensity and passion that Dr. Morris brought to the project, and with which he infected each of the cadre of tutors. We learned so much about the art of teaching reading to underachieving readers! For us, it was also taking place at the same time the seminal Virginia Studies were in full flower at the University of Virginia, under the direction of Dr. Edmund Henderson. As a result, Dr. Morris had us trying out a number of assessment instruments that were being developed by his peers from his time at UVA. We were the lucky recipients of that wave of enthusiasm for finding the magic spell that could work for struggling readers.
We developed very tight relationships with our students and they trusted us to create the safety net that allowed them to take the risks needed to progress.
To this day, I use what I learned at Howard Street in my work as a reading specialist. Thanks to that program, I developed a sixth sense in evaluating as I teach. We used the same model in our practicum and I credit this with my success with underachieving children.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to improve as a teacher of reading, and especially to institutions that wish to develop a solid program for teaching teachers.
The book is written with the same intensity and passion that Dr. Morris brought to the project, and with which he infected each of the cadre of tutors. We learned so much about the art of teaching reading to underachieving readers! For us, it was also taking place at the same time the seminal Virginia Studies were in full flower at the University of Virginia, under the direction of Dr. Edmund Henderson. As a result, Dr. Morris had us trying out a number of assessment instruments that were being developed by his peers from his time at UVA. We were the lucky recipients of that wave of enthusiasm for finding the magic spell that could work for struggling readers.
We developed very tight relationships with our students and they trusted us to create the safety net that allowed them to take the risks needed to progress.
To this day, I use what I learned at Howard Street in my work as a reading specialist. Thanks to that program, I developed a sixth sense in evaluating as I teach. We used the same model in our practicum and I credit this with my success with underachieving children.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to improve as a teacher of reading, and especially to institutions that wish to develop a solid program for teaching teachers.
February 28, 2011
Geared towards pros, not for someone like me who's new & inexperienced.
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