Sentences with phrase «best reading tutors»

The best reading tutors ever may be dogs.

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(If you want students to read to you or use audio, Fluency Tutor is a good alternative.)

Besides doing all that, they teach children to read or to read better, tutor students in mathematics, assist in classrooms or in after school programs, and teach mini-courses.

She is currently the deputy project director for two U.S. Department of Education studies: the national evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants as well as a study that will assess the feasibility of conducting an impact evaluation of paraprofessional reading tutors.

However, existing evidence also suggests that highly structured tutoring programmes provide the best effects on outcomes (i.e. where tutors are well trained, lessons focus on specific reading skills and sessions are timetabled systematically).

Test scores reflect not just the quality of schools or their teachers, but all kinds of other factors in children's lives, including their home environment; whether they attended a good preschool; traumas they have experienced; and whether their parents read to them at night or hire tutors.

Directors of literacy programs will want to reproduce the useful «Forms for Tutors» provided in this comprehensive and up - to - date resource, and will find it a «good read.»

Tutors with a background in education, as well as teachers and reading specialists, may enjoy the cutting - edge methods of instruction presented in this publication from the International Reading Assocreading specialists, may enjoy the cutting - edge methods of instruction presented in this publication from the International Reading AssocReading Association.

The Howard Street Tutoring Program reported effect sizes of.61 for word recognition and 1.07 for oral reading with the tutored group, performing significantly better than the matched controls.

Specifically, this study underscores the importance of key components for ensuring quality tutoring for the America Reads Challenge: (a) the use of research - based instructional elements to produce significant progress in reading achievement; (b) the need for a well - structured lesson plan in which the content and delivery of instruction are carefully planned; (c) the need for intensive, ongoing training and supervision of tutoring under the guidance of a knowledgeable reading specialist; (d) the need for frequent and regular tutoring sessions; and (e) the need for careful evaluation, assessment, monitoring and reinforcement of progress.

As Ms. Wexler indicates, reading ability is hard to teach (and isn't amenable to tutoring, albeit well - intentioned.

Clearly, more studies are needed if we are to better understand the nature of programs like the America Reads Challenge Program, which rely on relatively inexperienced tutors to work with struggling readers.

A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.

It's one of the best books I've ever read, and I read it because I was tutoring a struggling reader with his homework.

As an English tutor (ESL and Special Education) as well as a certified English, Language Arts and Reading teacher, I share insights into the writing disclipine.

Well, according to a recent domain name acquisition by Amazon.com Holdings, it's possible an online tutoring service or app is on... [Read more...]

Who knows, maybe your tutor has read that research paper as well.

This expert handles trusted driving lessons to clients as well as reading and writing tutoring.

Bridie continues to act in an advisory and consultative capacity to the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, as well as writing and presenting at conferences, and supporting the work of Reading Recovery teachers and tutors.