What I Learned as a Reading Tutor
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Reading or skimming through nearly 50 books on study, the author found something unique – a book by the head of a university's reading and learning disabilities clinic, a teacher with 17 years' experience in elementary and secondary schools. With its wealth of solutions for at-risk students – especially those with reading deficits – that book stood out as the best of the best. A book for parents of teenagers, it's a great resource for study skills in general and it offers practical, compassionate advice for the parent worried about a student's reading.
In What I Learned as a Reading Tutor, you can find out how people who came for help at an adult literacy agency had outstanding success. Three improved their scores on a standard reading test. One improved by 3 grade levels. Two got better jobs not long after the tutoring. What's more, because they were working with materials they found enjoyable or useful to them personally, they liked the tutoring.
Of course, an experiment with only 3 subjects is not all that impressive. One reason for this little ebook is a desire for feedback, especially feedback from reading specialists.
More than 30 million people in the U.S. cannot read above the third grade level. It's a problem for all of us and the problem is getting worse. High school students at risk of failure typically have trouble reading. For a good education, a child needs a home with books. Maybe these ideas will help.
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What I Learned as a Reading Tutor - Alan Haroldson
WHAT I LEARNED AS A READING TUTOR
by
Alan Haroldson
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In this book:
• My search for good books on study skills, in which I reviewed as many as I could get my hands on
• My discovery of Marvin Cohn’s Helping Your Teen-Age Student: What Parents Can Do to Improve Reading and Study Skills (1980, E. P. Dutton publisher)
• Advice for word recognition errors from Dr. Cohn, who wrote with many years of teaching experience and a Ph.D. in reading
• A method I tried with students and results with this method – two of them getting better jobs and one showing an improvement of three grade levels with a standard reading test
At the end, I have a few details about another e-book you might be interested in,
Self-Help: A Pocket Guide to Therapies.