Learning About Our Mentoring Program (Add your mentoring program’s name)

What is (your mentoring program’s name)?  Provides 1:1 reading mentoring to students identified in our Program’s Entrance Criteria  Provides mentoring as often as possible. Research supports 4 X per week.  Pre-tests and post-tests students using DIBELS, DRA, aimsweb®, etc.; or fluency passages  Staff attends 1 Full Day of Reading Mentoring Instruction + ½ Day of Reading Mentoring Instruction  Purchases a Reading A-Z license annually ( for as long as these mentoring materials are being used

To familiarize participants with (program’s name) To demonstrate the success of 1:1 mentoring To understand the roles and responsibilities of mentors To practice activities in a typical mentoring session GOALS FOR TODAY’S TRAINING

(your program) may serve:  Students with reading goals on their Individualized Education Programs (IEP)  Students who are at-risk  Students who are English Language Learners (ELL)  Other students that schools/organizations identify as needing 1:1 intervention

THE BASICS Any students identified in our entrance criteria 1:1 mentoring using materials 30 minute sessions 4 times per week Pre-test and Post-test using Fluency Passages from DIBELS, DRA, aimsweb®, etc.

WHO MENTORS? Parent volunteers Student volunteers Community volunteers College students Teachers School aides, Para-pros, Bus Drivers, Cooks, other staff

ROLES OF THE MENTOR Sign the Mentor Contract Be dependable. Adhering to the schedule is essential. Be on time! Follow the plans Comment on the session Maintain confidentiality Maintain records (tracking forms, progress report)

WHAT TO EXPECT Lesson Plan for each mentoring session = What to do?  Created by the Coordinator (insert name)  Followed by the Mentor  Mentor records comments

THE SESSION PLAN Completion of FLUENCY work (cold, warm, hot) Completing Graphic Organizer Motivation and tracking of progress (stickers, graphs, games) Demonstration of knowledge of skills through the game(s) Completion of writing activities Achievement of a passing score on Comprehension Quick Check

LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLDER

WHO ARE YOU? Discussion Questions for the Mentor & Mentee Initial week’s activities (every time a new mentor or student is added) Building relationships between the Mentor and the Student Sharing interests and learning more about each other Examples: What is your favorite game to play? If you could be any type of sandwich what would you be and why? What is your favorite thing to do outside?

TYPES OF READING TO EXPECT Read Aloud: Mentor reads the story first Shared Reading: Taking turns Guided Reading: Listening to student read

WHAT IS READING? Think about what it means to read Write your thoughts Share your thoughts about reading with a partner

COMPONENTS OF READING Alphabet Recognition Phonological Awareness Word Recognition High Frequency Words Fluency Comprehension Questioning Comprehension Strategies See Readinga-z.com “Tips for Teaching”

ALPHABET RECOGNITION Alphabet assessments will determine a student’s ability in alphabet recognition Practice identifying and writing upper and lower case letters

LET’S PRACTICE: ALPHABET RECOGNITION Tutor Teaching Tips handout from Alphabet Pack: Letter Ss Read through activities Make the Ss Book Do the first two activities and complete them with a partner

LET’S TAKE A BREAK!

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS Phonemic awareness assessments will determine a student’s ability to hear sounds Rhyme Isolating and categorizing sounds Blending and segmenting syllables and sounds Manipulating phonemes (sounds)

WORD RECOGNITION Sound out the word Use picture clues Look for word chunks Apply common phonics rules Recognize syllable patterns

HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS 13 words make up 25% of the words we read 100 words make up 50% of words we read Students need to be able to recognize these words automatically without sounding them out in order to be fluent

THE IMPORTANCE OF FLUENCY Speed -- standard reading rate Prosody -- proper pause and expression Allows students to focus on getting the meaning from text Fluent readers automatically recognize words accurately and effortlessly. Fluent readers group words into phrases and chunks as they read with expression and fluidity.

WHAT TO EXPECT: FLUENCY Cold Read Cold Read Every time a student is given a “new book”! One minute timed reading of a fluency passage BLUE Mentor tracks errors in BLUE Warm Read Warm Read Also during the “new book” lesson Student practices passage with mentor support One minute timed reading YELLOW Mentor tracks errors in YELLOW Hot Read Hot Read 2 nd —4th sessions used to practice 5 th session one minute timed reading (same passage) RED Mentor tracks errors in RED STUDENTS CREATE BAR GRAPH TO TRACK PROGRESS

LET’S PRACTICE: FLUENCY Use the mentoring folders With a partner, agree who will be the “student” and who will be the “mentor” Do a COLD READ (student reads/mentor marks errors) Graph the results Practice Do a WARM READ (student reads/mentor marks errors) Graph the results

What is a Bar Graph? Look at the Reading Fluency Graph (85 wpm). A bar graph is a visual way to compare information that involves numbers. The title of the graph helps us know what information the bar graph is displaying. This graph tracks the Cold, Warm and Hot timed fluency reads a student made. Along the bottom of the graph are the dates, the titles of the books, fiction (f: not true) or nonfiction (nf: true) and the books’ levels. This information is called the x-axis. The numbers along the left side are called the y-axis. These numbers show the number of words read correctly in a minute (wpm).

COMPREHENSION Understanding what is read: Questioning Predicting Visualizing Retelling and summarizing Connections to life, other texts, prior knowledge

LET’S PRACTICE: Fluency & Comprehension Activities Make the book Follow the Multi-Session Fluency & Comprehension Lesson Plan (With a partner, choose the “student” and the “mentor”) Fluency Instruction for Mentors Cold Read, Practice & Warm Read Fill in the Fluency Graph with the Student Read through Lesson 1, Part 2 Do the activities with the book Practice : Added Vocabulary Words Play Game

QUESTIONS and NEXT STEPS