1. Reading Together
Tutor Training
Session 5
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2. Giving Positive Feedback and
Encouragement
•Your tutees are students who have difficulty
reading
•They need encouragement and positive feedback
as they read
•Positive feedback should be given
only after your tutee has done well or
shown real effort
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3. Give it a try . . .
What could you say to your tutee?
Turn to your partner and practice giving
them positive feedback and
encouragement
Now switch roles with your
partner
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4. Let’s review how to
make corrections . . .
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5. Using the Progress Forms
• The story is divided into sentences or
small groups of sentences
• Put a check mark in the 1st column
if the tutee reads the sentence correctly
• Put a check mark in the 2nd column if the tutee
makes an error and corrects it without your help
• Put a check mark in the 3rd column if the tutee
makes an important mistake and does not
correct it OR stops reading OR asks for help
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6. Let’s practice using the
Progress Form . . .
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7. • With your partner, decide who will play the role of
tutor and who will play the role of tutee
• The tutee will read (with the mistakes that are
printed) the part of the passage above the picture as
the tutor completes the progress form
• Tutors should give positive feedback (“Nice” or
“That’s right”) after several sentences have been
read well
• DO NOT give positive feedback after a sentence has
been read incorrectly
• Switch roles with your partner and finish the
passage
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8. Showing the Progress Form
to Your Tutee
• Before the first reading of the passage, you will
introduce the Progress Form to your tutee --
your Tutor Guidebook will tell you what to say
• Show the form to your tutee and explain how
you will mark it
• Make sure to tell them it isn’t a test
• Let them know you will show them the sheet
when you have finished marking it
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