Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Identifying the 61 Partnerships

Detrmining Effective and Promising Practices

• Effective and Promising Practices of 61 America Reads Partnerships

Building Effective Partnerships

• Community partners
• The tutoring team
  • Program coordinators and onsite coordinators
  • Tutors
  • Teachers
  • Corporation for National Service and Federal Work-Study Tutors
  • Parents and caregivers
  • Children

The Tutoring Program

• Training of trainers
• Training of tutors
  • Methodology of tutor training
  • Content of tutor training
    • Program overview and expectations of tutors
    • Tutor commitment and building relationships with children
• The tutoring session
  • Rereading a familiar story or text
  • Word analysis
  • Writing
  • Introducing new reading material
  • Materials used in a tutoring session
• Volunteer support
• Assessment
  • Subjective assessment
  • Objective assessment

Conclusion

• Favorite Manuals

Resources and Bibliography

• Lessons Learned
• How to Spend $50,000
• Partnerships' Bibliography
• America Reads Partnerships: Contacts
• Regional Educational Laboratories
• References

Program Highlights

• Building Individual and Community Self Sufficiency through Service
  Sacramento, California
• Reading Discovery Tutor Training Program
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Tennessee Reads
  Nashville, Tennessee
• South Florida America Reads Coalition
  Miami, Florida
• Partnership for America Reads Challenge
  Honolulu, Hawaii
• Systematic Training for America Reads Tutors (START)
  Norristown, Pennsylvania
• Missouri Reads
  Columbia, Missouri
• Montana America Reads Tutoring Partnership
  Helena, Montana
• Oneida County America Reads Challenge
  Utica, New York

Credits

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