0. Tutoring Tips to Minimize Summer Slide
Schools of Hope
Advanced Tutor Training
April 20, 2016
Dr. MaryAnn Nickel
Sonoma State University
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What is
Summer Slide?
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When summer is over and students return to school, teachers find that many students have fallen behind their previous year gain.
National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) confirms that teachers spend a significant amount of time re-teaching material due to summer learning loss--three to six weeks re-teaching material from the previous school year.
A Johns Hopkins study of Baltimore Public Schools notes that low-income youths “lose more than two months in reading achievement” over summer vacation, while their middle-class counterparts make small gains in reading achievement.
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Can Summer Slide be prevented?
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Important to Note!
Shin & Krashen report in their synthesis of all summer slide in reading research:
All kids make about the same amount of progress during the school year
The difference among children of all income levels appears to be heavily influenced by what happens over the summer.
Children from higher income families make growth over the summer
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“The crucial activity that occurs during the summer, the activity that causes the difference in growth in literacy, is recreational reading.” (p.19)
Shin & Krashen, Summer Reading, Pearson, 2008
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Can Summer Slide be prevented?
What’s a tutor to do?
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Write a stack of letters. Put them in a cool envelope of folder. And date them for every few weeks of the summer. Use the vocabulary lists you have been working on with your tutee
Put some of the poems in our handout in the folder
Put the student’s writing in the folder
Add some environmental print.
Put the nearest library card info in the folder in Spanish and English
Put the summer reading for kids schedule in the folder too!
Give them a book, if you can
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Kids read when they see themselves as readers!
Practice honest, positive talk about their reading skills.
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10. Students’ Literate Identities
Students’ reading identity is formed over time. Their identities are built on their experiences in school and the identities that they learn to embody. Time to look at second to last page!
Simply put: Your literate identity influences how you read!
(Hall, 2012; O’Brien, Stewart, & Beach, 2009)
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Kids do not feel like competent readers if they are asked to read silly texts. For example. . .
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12. Pause for Some Silliness
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13. What Is Important to Know & Share
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The Best Books for Many
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The Best Books for Many
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Kids read what they say!
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Take some photos
Ask: What were you doing in this picture?
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Resources
Get a Sonoma County Library Card
Good books for younger readers
Always check Amazon’s books for suggestions
Readicide
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To Sum Up
All students experience learning loss when they do not engage in reading, thinking activities over the summer
Traditional Summer School is not the answer
What you do now matters
What you have been doing has already mattered!
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