Creating Learning Partners: A facilitator’s guide for training effective adult literacy tutors

Section 6 Putting It All Together

This section will give tutors an opportunity to develop a lesson plan for a learner. They will learn how to take the information they gained from an informal assessment and use it to develop a lesson plan.

Activity A

Developing a lesson plan

Group work
Materials and equipment Handout 6.6: Strategies for Reading from Section, Activity A Flip chart and markers Books and other resources that will give tutors ideas about and information on strategies to teach reading Preparation Make a list of the reading components to post so tutors can refer to it. STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS As a large group, brainstorm how a tutor could use all the components of reading instruction in a tutoring session, even if the focus is just on one text. For example, you may read a text together either at the beginning or end of the lesson to practise fluency. You may take unknown words from that text or another text to build vocabulary. There may be other words in the text the learner had difficulty decoding that you could work on. You may need to do a few comprehension exercises. All the components of reading instruction can come from one text. Using the same groups and profiles as in Section 5, Activity B, ask tutors to plan a tutoring session using the strategies they have selected. Remind them to include all the components of reading in their session. Also, remind them about the training they had on lesson planning and ask them to incorporate that into their lesson plan. (You might need to have a quick brainstorm about lesson planning to refresh their memories.) Have resources available for tutors to look over that use a variety of the strategies listed on the handout. You can use print out sheets or other tutor handbooks you have in your program. You can also use copies of the strategies listed at the end of this unit. Give tutors about 10 minutes for the activity. When they are finished, have them present their lesson plan to the rest of the group.

Group work

Materials and equipment

Handout 6.6: Strategies for Reading from Section, Activity A
Flip chart and markers
Books and other resources that will give tutors ideas about and information on strategies to teach reading

Preparation

Make a list of the reading components to post so tutors can refer to it.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

As a large group, brainstorm how a tutor could use all the components of reading instruction in a tutoring session, even if the focus is just on one text. For example, you may read a text together either at the beginning or end of the lesson to practise fluency. You may take unknown words from that text or another text to build vocabulary. There may be other words in the text the learner had difficulty decoding that you could work on. You may need to do a few comprehension exercises. All the components of reading instruction can come from one text.
Using the same groups and profiles as in Section 5, Activity B, ask tutors to plan a tutoring session using the strategies they have selected. Remind them to include all the components of reading in their session. Also, remind them about the training they had on lesson planning and ask them to incorporate that into their lesson plan. (You might need to have a quick brainstorm about lesson planning to refresh their memories.)
Have resources available for tutors to look over that use a variety of the strategies listed on the handout. You can use print out sheets or other tutor handbooks you have in your program. You can also use copies of the strategies listed at the end of this unit.
Give tutors about 10 minutes for the activity. When they are finished, have them present their lesson plan to the rest of the group.