Designing a Successful Tutoring Session for Struggling Readers
Designing a Successful Tutoring Session for Struggling Readers addresses how to design and deliver a successful one-on-one tutoring session tailored to the needs of struggling readers. Essential topics with implications for preparation of literacy tutoring sessions are addressed-response to intervention (RTI), components and organization of a tutoring session, word recognition and fluency strategies, comprehension strategies, writing strategies, content area with STEAM, use of technology, English Language Learners, and parent involvement. Current trends discussed include close reading, close writing, multimodal literacies, digital literacies, text complexity, and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) guidelines.