Presentation of reading tutor sessions

1. Reading Practicum Everything You Needed to Know to Tutor a Twelve Year Old in Reading!!!!! By Wendy Craven

2. The KWL by the teacher K – What I Know – Sister Marilyn taught me! W – What I Want to Know – how to tutor!!! L – What I Hope to Learn – how to do it right!

3. The Suspect(aka student) 12 Year Old Middle School Student entering Grade 7 in August 2011 Enjoys reading unless in school! Last books read – Percy Jackson series Interests – baseball, baseball, and video games Family – Mom, Dad, and 7 year old sister plus Balloo and Unity (canine family) Physical – Warm and loving heart and soul

4. Background Information Roe & Burns Informal Reading Inventory Pre-Test Results for Oral and Silent Comprehension Passages Independent Level – Level 7 Instructional Level – Level 8 Frustration Level – Level 9 Listening Comprehension – Level 9 ½

5. The Mission (aka the goals) Goals for Instruction: Develop Inference and Vocabulary Skills

6. How to Accomplish Mission Inference Skills Vocabulary Skills Adding Captions to Comic Strips Inference Battleship Computer Game Riddle games Far Side Cartoon Inferencing Silent viewing of TV show Find the tennis balls by clues Newspaper headline inferencing Miniature pool inferencing Match the music with artwork Traffic signs with no words Solve the mystery Cloze passage exercise Hangman Vocabulary Vocabulary Rummy Sketch the Word Basketball Vocabulary game Nonsense Word Decoding Tic Tac Toe Vocabulary game Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

7. Reconnaissance Mission

8. Reconnaissance Mission Continued….

9. Not Done Yet!.....

10. Reconnaissance Completed!

12. Operational Data Roe & Burns Informal Reading Inventory Post-Test Results for Oral and Silent Comprehension Passages Independent Level – Level 8 1/2 Instructional Level – Level 9 1/2 Frustration Level – Level 10 Listening Comprehension – Level 11

13. Mission Accomplishments Suspect increased his: Instructional level - increase of 1 ½ levels Independent Level - increase of 1 ½ levels Frustration Level - increase of 1 level Listening Comprehension Level -increase of 1 level Mission Goal – Mastered Inference Skills!!! (still need to work on vocabulary skills)

14. That’s All Folks…