Reading & Math: 1:1 Tutoring

Children will be taught to use comprehension strategies including: making connections to a text, relating background knowledge, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, synthesizing, problem-solving, distinguishing between fact and opinion, finding the main idea, and supporting details.

Sessions will be taught with a Balanced Literacy approach using the following teaching strategies:

     *Teacher modeling- or showing kids what a reader does when reading a text, thinking aloud about the mental processes used to construct meaning while reading a book aloud to the class.

     *Active Engagement- during the mini-lesson; students try the work they were shown by the teacher.

      *Independent practice- where children begin to work alone while reading books by themselves.

      *Application- is achieved when the students can correctly apply comprehension strategies to different kinds of texts. 

This approach, will help students develop reading and writing skills through a combined balanced literacy.