Effective Practices for Service Events: Read Across America
- Addressing special needs of children in a multicultural community when implementing literacy tutoring
- Assessing the qualifications of prospective tutors
- Choosing and using a literacy model
- Connecting incarcerated parents and their children through inmates' recorded readings of books
- Developing a community adult literacy program
- Developing curricula and tutoring strategies to meet grant guidelines
- Finding free or inexpensive books
- Helping children learn to read
- Implementing a statewide reading program for elementary students
- Implementing a team-tutoring program for literacy instruction
- Incorporating ten strategies to achieve a balanced approach to tutoring
- Increasing literacy by dramatizing books with elementary school children
- Increasing vocabulary with a kinesthetic activity
- Introducing nouns to students
- Planning the tutoring session
- Providing ongoing tutor training and support
- Providing young people with authentic writing activities: ten tips
- Recruiting qualified volunteer tutors in low-income urban communities
- Selecting appropriate books to read with children
- Supporting young readers
- Teaching students to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters
- Tutoring English language learners
- Understanding how children learn to read
- Using a character tree to keep track of a story
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