The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox
If you're like other tutors, you're involved in literacy education because you want to help people succeed.  But do you have the tools you need to help learners build characteristics of successful readers and writers?  Are you looking for specific activities to use with adult or adolescent beginning readers?  If so, this is the handbook you've been waiting for.  Whether you're volunteering in an adult literacy program or helping your child in school, this book is the perfect guide.  "The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox" includes tutoring ideas, teaching activities, and evaluation suggestions.Tutors who help people learn to read are giving their most valuable resource -- their time.  "The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox" provides the hands-on tools to help you use that time most effectively.  This book is ideal for the tutor who has had limited training in teaching methods as well as for those who want to brush up on current thinking about reading instruction.  The authors provide sound strategies and activities to guide tutors as they teach students to be independent learners.  In this practical book, you'll learn how to provide support but not "do" the work for the students.  The text also offers advice to help you adjust to your role and establish positive working relationships with learners.Parents will find guidelines for helping children and adolescents with homework  and test-taking. The text offers specific advice on improving study skills at home and in school.  And those parents or others who volunteer in the classroom will get ideas for spending more effective time there.Whether you're a volunteer in a community literacy program, a one-on-one tutor, or a parent who wants to support classroom learning, this book will show you how to work with individual students to strengthen their reading abilities.  Pick up "The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox" and start building the road to success for literacy learners!