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• Handouts for your tutees
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Handouts for your tutees

• What tutors do and don’t do. This helpful, one-page handout clarifies the relationship between tutor and tutee.

• Why English is so hard. This humorous poem is a great ice-breaker for tutees.

• A tutor’s reading strategy for textbooks. Tutees who don’t know how to study from a textbook will benefit from this handout.

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Tips for successful tutoring

• Questioning techniques for tutors. Here are five types of questions to help you discover what a tutee knows and keep a session interesting.

• A tutor’s questions for reading assignments. This paper presents three types of questions to encourage tutees to engage with the text.

• A tutor’s analysis of the role of prediction in reading. This rich handout tells why reading is impossible without prediction and explains that prediction is routinely practiced by both beginning and fluent readers.

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The tutoring experience

• Overview of tutor training seminar. Know the 11 goals of the tutor training program and find out how people learn.

• Tutoring as empowerment. Learn how to develop a tutee’s power.

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