Help reading tutors work with children using LVA's new Help a Child Learn to Read. This manual addresses best practices for tutoring children, appropriate children's books, assessment and instruction, working with the classroom teacher, adaptation of content-area materials to tutoring situations, age appropriateness and its relatonship to tutoring, working with the limited-English proficiency (LEP) child; emerging literacy (with appropriate children's writings), responsibilities and legal issues, and documentation.
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The President's America Reads Challenge is clear. "Every child in America shall be able to read independently by the end of the third grade." The President issued the challenge. Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) provides the answer: Help a Child Learn to Read. This book - used with LVA's Maintaining the Balance: A Guide to 50-50 Management -provides you with all the elements you need to create a complete, affordable tutoring program for children.
Help a Child Learn to Read, developed through a grant from the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education at the George Washington University, is the latest publication in LVA's long line of quality tutor-training manuals. Like LVA's TUTOR, its counterpart for adult literacy tutors, Help a Child Learn to Read is designed simply. Using the book as a guide, any motivated adult can make a difference in the life of a child who needs help improving his or her reading skills.
Author Judy Cheatham, Ph.D., director of Greensboro College's Writing Across the Curriculum Program, supervisor of its Tutoring Program for using college students in schools and a veteran of more than two decades of educating America's reading instructors, has written Help a Child Learn to Read in plain English.
What will having a logical, jargon-free instruction manual mean to you? Simply put, it will enable your organization to help a child become a better reader.
At Literacy Volunteers of America, we have helped improve the literacy skills of hundreds of thousands of adults and their families over the past 36 years. We believe the America Reads Challenge can be achieved, and that Help a Child Learn to Read is the ideal tool with which to achieve it. - Marsha Tait, President, Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc.
About the Author
Judy Cheatham is the Campbell Professor of Writing and Professor of English at Greensboro College, North Carolina. The author of Small Group Tutoring: A Collaborative Approach for Literacy Instruction, and coauthor of TUTOR 7 and Whole Langage for Adults, she has been active in family and workplace literacy since 1986. She has conducted adult and family literacy projects underwritten by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and the Kentucky Literacy Commission. In her literary work, Dr. Cheatham has trained thousands of tutors across the country.
At Greensboro College, Dr. Cheatham teaches linquistics, Modern English, composition, American and women's literature, and three pedagogy coursees (The Pedagogy of Middle Grades Language Arts, the Pedagogy of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and the Pedagogy of English, Grades 9-12.); she also is involved with training, planning and supervising in the College's extensive field experience and tutoring programs offered through the Teacher Education Program. She sits on the Lindley Elementary School PTA board, the Grimsley High School advisory committee, the LVA local affiliate Reading Connections board, and the O. Henry Festival board, serving in 1998 as chair.
A teacher since 1973, Dr. Cheatham lives in Greensboro with her husband, George, and two children, Dayton and Sarah Hampton.
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