Paired Reading

Kids As Reading Helpers: A Peer Tutor Training Manual

Copyright 2002 by Jim Wright www.interventioncentral.org L3-1

Lesson 3: Strategies to Build Reading Fluency
Select one of the two reading-fluency strategies listed below to teach your tutors. Both strategies are easily taught and have been demonstrated to be very effective in building reading fluency. Choose the one that you believewould be easiest for your tutors to use and that will match the skills of the children being tutored.

Lesson 3A: How to Do Paired Reading

Paired reading is an ideal fluency-building technique to use with less-skilled readers who are not confident in reading alone. The tutor and tutee read together from the text. When the tutee chooses, he or she can read alone, while the tutor follows silentlyalong in the text. Whenever the tutee misreads a word or otherwise makes a reading error, the tutor supplies the correct word and resumes reading aloud in tandem with the tutee.

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Lesson 3B: How to Do ‘Listening While Reading’
‘Listening While Reading’ is an approach that allows the struggling reader to silently ‘rehearse’ a passage by first following along silently in the text while thetutor reads aloud. Then the tutee reads the same passage aloud, receiving help and corrective feedback on difficult words.

Peer Tutor Training Curriculum

Lesson 3: Strategies to Build Reading Fluency

Kids As Reading Helpers: A Peer Tutor Training Manual

Copyright 2002 by Jim Wright www.interventioncentral.org L3-2

Lesson 3A: How to Do Paired Reading
Introduction
Paired reading is asimple but effective technique for helping struggling readers to increase their reading fluency and accuracy in text. The goal of this lesson is to train your peer tutors to use paired reading correctly and with confidence.

Estimated Time
• 30-40 minutes

Materials Needed
• • • Reading books for each peer tutor (See Preparation section below) Poster: Paired Reading Colorful, assorted smallstickers

Preparation
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Familiarize yourself with paired reading. Read through the sheet Paired Reading: A Description, contained in this packet. Study the paired-reading strategy until you are comfortable in teaching it to peer tutors. Have books on hand. Peer tutors will need reading books during this session, in order to practice their paired-reading skills. Either instruct tutors tobring reading books to the session or have a collection of books on hand that tutors can borrow for practice.

Training Steps

1. Introduce the paired-reading strategy. Tell your students that you are going to teach them a simple way to help younger children to read better: paired reading. • Refer to the Paired Tutoring poster on the wall as you explain the steps of peer tutoring.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paired Reading: Steps q Read from the book with your student. q When your student taps your hand, let the student read alone as you follow along silently. q If the student reads a word wrong, skips a word, or doesn’t know a word (5-second rule): o Point to the word o Tell them the word o Havethem repeat the word o Join them in reading aloud again

Peer Tutor Training Curriculum

Lesson 3: Strategies to Build Reading Fluency

Kids As Reading Helpers: A Peer Tutor Training Manual

Copyright 2002 by Jim Wright www.interventioncentral.org L3-3

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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pick astudent from the group. Tell him or her to play-act the role of a younger reader. Encourage your student to read somewhat haltingly and to make an occasional reading error. With the student as your ‘tutee’, demonstrate the paired-reading strategy. At the end of the demonstration, ask whether students have any questions about how to do paired reading. NOTE: Be sure that students understand that they...