Table of Contents

How to use this guide

Section 1: Getting started

• Student Centred Individualized Learning (SCIL)
• Your role as a tutor
• Identifying strengths and learning needs
• Session planning
• Demonstrating progress
• Child safety issues
• Stages of reading
  

Section 2: Learning to read

• Beginning readers
• Word‐attack skills
  • Phonics
  • Breaking words down
  • Spelling
  • Sight words
• Tutoring strategies
  • Language Experience Approach
  • Reading aloud with beginning readers
  • Reading and writing ideas
  • Cloze exercises

Section 3: Reading to learn

• Struggling readers
• Reading strategies
• Choosing good reading materials
• Writing strategies
• Helping your students with homework

Conclusion

References