Tutoring and Volunteering

When Good Kids Get Bad Grades

By: Lisamarie Sanders (2006)

Tutoring can offer kids the one-on-one attention busy teachers often can't provide. From simple homework help to intensive work on basic skills, tutoring can offer just the boost your child needs to succeed.

A Guide for Finding a Tutor

By: Partnership For Learning (2006)

From Poor to Soar: Finding the Help Your Child Needs

By: Lisamarie Sanders (2006)

Breaking Barriers Without Breaking the Bank

By: Lisamarie Sanders (2006)

As a parent, you would do anything for your child. And when you see your child struggling, you want to jump in and help. But sometimes your instincts and desire aren't enough. When your child struggles with schoolwork and a tutor is necessary, one of the biggest roadblocks to getting help is money.

4 Steps to Finding an Excellent Tutor for Your Child

By: Carole McGraw (2006)

Whether your child is lost in a haze of elementary grammar rules, sinking fast in a jumble of Newton's laws in middle school, or lost in the details of an AP biology class, you need help. And usually you need help quickly, before your child falls way behind the class and never recovers. You want to find help before she feels like a failure, loses self esteem, and gives up on school. So, exactly what can you do....NOW?

How to Choose a Tutor (Or Other Education Service Provider)

By: Judy Shanley (2005)

When looking for a professional to deliver tutoring services to your child, what are some of the important questions to ask and issues to keep in mind?

Tips for Reading Tutors

By: U.S. Department of Education (2004)

The U.S. Department of Education developed this brief guide for reading tutors. It lists ways that tutoring helps both the learner and the tutor, and provides practical tips that can help tutors be more effective in their work.

Reading For Meaning: Tutoring Elementary Students to Enhance Comprehension

By: Akimi Gibson (2004)

This article provides tutors with proven techniques for helping students acquire comprehension skills and strategies. In addition to building background knowledge about comprehension, it looks at six comprehension strategies and activities that support each strategy.

Developing a Tutoring Program

By: Derry Koralek and Ray Collins (1997)

A tutoring program that will best serve children's needs should be carefully developed with those needs in mind. Here are eight steps to developing a tutoring program, from setting goals to developing a curriculum.

Tutoring Strategies for the Primary Grades

By: Derry Koralek and Ray Collins (1997)

Whether reading to a child, sharing reading, or listening to a child read aloud, there are many strategies a tutor can use to improve the skills of a young reader. Learn about the strategies – from modeling to KWL – that are useful for tutoring children in grades one through three.

Tutoring Strategies for Preschool and Kindergarten

By: Derry Koralek and Ray Collins (1997)

Whether a tutor is reading aloud, talking, or writing with a child, there are strategies for making these interactions even more valuable. Learn about these strategies in these tips for tutoring preschool and kindergarten children.

Evidence That Tutoring Works

By: U.S. Department of Education (1997)

When tutors work closely with teachers and are provided with intensive, ongoing training, they can make a difference in a child's reading success. Learn what researchers have found about the elements of tutoring programs that lead to increase reading achievement.

What Concerned Citizens Can Do to Help All Children Read

By: U.S. Department of Education (1997)

From becoming a tutor to helping at the local library, there are concrete steps concerned citizens can take to help more children learn to read. Learn about these and more steps community members can take towards this goal.

The Role of the Volunteer Tutor

By: America Reads at Bank Street College of Education. (1997)

While volunteer tutoring is not meant to replace the work of a teacher, tutors can play very important roles in the lives of the children they work with. Learn about these roles and the types of tutoring programs that are available to provide young readers with one-on-one support.