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Bank Street College's approach to early literacy acquisition
Download Acrobat reader files
The role of a volunteer literacy tutor
Getting Prepared - what to bring
Valuable hints for successful tutoring
Getting started - breaking the ice
Stages of early literacy development
Background knowledge
Emergent readers
Early readers
Early fluent/fluent readers
Strategies and techniques readers use
Introduction
Developing literacy for English language learners
Stages of second language literacy
Reading instruction
Instruction for childiren with no formal instruction in their first language
Instruction for childiren with formal instruction in their first language
Hints for tutoring English language learners
Strategies for tutoring English language learners
Strategies: tutor's attitude
Strategies: contact
Strategies: communication
Sample first lesson
Sample subsequent lesson