“HOW TO BE A READING TUTOR” by Brad Hill

This is an excellent six part tutorial specifically on how to be a Reading Tutor for older students and teens who cannot read at the third grade level. It was written for people who are volunteer one-on-one tutors in schools, but it is extremely helpful and adaptable when working with homeschooled students who have reading problems too. It is filled with specific tips and suggestions, along with a breakdown of what you want to do and accomplish with each session. Very practical and effective “hands on” tutoring.

Unfortunately, the author’s website has been taken offline, and We’ve had no luck at all trying to track him down. However, an archived version of the page IS available, and the links to each part of the six part series are working fine as of this moment. Therefore, if this is something that would be useful to you, I’d strongly suggest that you go ahead and print it out, as it may not always be available online.

CLICK HERE to go to the site on Archive.org

SightWords.com is a great site that provides parents and home educators dozens of high quality digital and printable tools to help them teach young children to read, including:

-Grade-specific flash cards of more than 500 Dolch and Fry sight words

-Detailed instructions on how to teach children new words

-10 fun learning games

-Full tutorial on correction techniques

-Generators to make fully customizable Bingo cards, Snakes and Ladders game boards, Old Maid card sets, and more.

All the resources on Sightwords.com are free and designed to help your child learn how to read effectively from pre-k up to 4th grade.

Click here to go to the main site!

Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning series of games – which incorporate loads of family friendly cartoon monsters – that help children learn to read.

The game takes children on a magical journey, meeting colorful characters along the way and collecting rewards. As they progress, players rehearse a range of essential reading skills; matching letters to sounds, blending, segmenting, tricky words and reading full sentences. The games are for children in the first stages of learning to read, or for older children who need a bit more practice.

Teach Your Monster to Read is funded by the Usborne Foundation, a charity set up to support initiatives to develop early literacy. Play for free on the website or download the app. Registration is required.

CLICK HERE to go to the website!

1plus1plus1equals1.com is a terrific homeschooling resource blog and site, offering dozens of downloadable resources for younger students. Today we are featuring their neat sight-reading program, You Can Read!

From the website:

You Can Read! is a simple sight word program I developed with younger readers in mind.  Children learn to read at different ages and some show the reading readiness signs at much younger ages than others.  These children are ready to learn words and reading skills, they just aren’t ready for complex worksheets and activities often available to children who are a bit older when they are learning.  I created this program for children who are showing reading readiness signs at a younger age, approximately ages 3-5.  Older children can use these printables and activities also, they were just created with a younger reader in mind!

Note: The printable sets may be freely downloaded from the following pages, or you can download them all in one bundle for a fee:

Printable PDF sets 1-5 are available HERE

Printable PDF sets 6 – 10 are available HERE

You can also check out the many other resources available at 1plus1plus1equals1.com by clicking items of interest on the right hand side green sidebar on the site.