Suggested Resources for Continuing Volunteer Education

Ted Talk
How every child can thrive by five

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3 T's of Literacy Development

The 4:1 ratio

Help developing relationships, trust and pointing out the positives.

Parallel talk

Helping develop vocabulary and encouraging students to speak in complete sentences

Partner reading

Help coach students through tricky words to reinforce reading accuracy

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Paragraph Shrinking

Helping kids get to the main idea of the text.

Echo and Phrase Reading

Help for reaading with students who need modeling. 

Building Automaticity

Using focus boards (see first 3 minutes)

NOTE: 

  • There are multiple tabs on the spreadsheet.
  • When using this document, please make a copy to use with your student. 
 

Directions:
Enter a list of six words, letters, sounds, or Final Stable Syllables, and generate 5 Rapid Recognition charts to use with your students. To use the Rapid Recognition Chart as an assessment, time the number of student readings of the chart within one minute.

Rapid Recognition Chart Generator

FOCUS BOARD LINK [excel file]
FOCUS BOARD LINK [Google doc]

 

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