his site offers guidance to college-age students working as literacy tutors to 5 - 8-year-old children. In addition, parents, school or other education volunteers, supervisors of volunteers, and work-study students, may find useful information provided here.

• Finding things on the site: The site has been organized to provide several kinds of information to volunteer literacy tutors:
  • information about the role of a tutor
  • information about early literacy development
  • sample tutoring lesson plans and activities
  • information about the strategies children can use when reading
  • information about other resources for tutors including further readings and book ideas for young children
  
  Using the Acrobat file
  
• If you would like to print out information from this site you can select one of the two Acrobat files we have made available. Using these files will allow you to print out information relatively quickly and easily.
• The first Acrobat file includes all the information contained on this website (approximately 75 pages)
• The second Acrobat file includes specific information for getting started as a tutor: basic lesson plans, tutoring tips, and some resources and activity ideas.

The content for this site was developed by:
Claudia Grose, graduate faculty member and former director of the Graduate Reading/Literacy Program at Bank Street College of Education
Naomi Hupert, senior research associate at the Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology
Luisa Costa Garro, graduate faculty member Bilingual/Special Education Department
Olga Romero, Chair, Bilingual/Special Education Department

Special thanks to Judith Gold and Peggy McNamara who served as reviewers for the site.

This link provides readers with a quick explanation to some technical terms used in parts of the site. For a complete list of terms, refer to the glossary.

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