Session Steps 101:
Flow of a tutoring session
Flow of a tutoring session
This activity comes first in every tutoring session and lasts about 3 minutes.
What are Opening Activities/ check-in?
True or False — Experience Corps focuses on evidence-based tutoring in schools located in high-need areas.
True.
Tutors always begin Fluency Games with this activity.
What is Echo Reading?
Your student mispronounces a word. What should you do first?
Correct the word, then have them re-read the whole sentence.
How many bowls of porridge did Goldilocks try before finding one she liked?
Three
The 30-minute session is broken into 3 major activity parts. What are the two bookend activities?
What are Opening and Closing Activities (Read Aloud)?
Experience Corps is part of this foundation’s national tutoring initiative.
What is the AARP Foundation?
This Fluency Game involves reading together in unison.
What is Choral Reading?
Your student is struggling with a long sentence. What strategy should you use?
What is Chunking the sentence into smaller parts, then re-reading?
How many pigs were very bad at building wolf-proof houses?
Two
The biggest portion of the 30-minute session is this, lasting about 24 minutes total.
What are Skill-Building Activities (or Fluency Fun Games)?
SCCSC, the Experience Corps Sacramento host agency, stands for this organization.
What is the Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center?
In this game, the tutor stops suddenly, and the student fills in the missing word(s).
What is Fill-in-the-Blank Reading?
A student is distracted and off-task. What should you do at closing?
Use a positive affirmation and gently redirect.
How many blind mice are there?
Three
During this part, tutors share a fiction book with enthusiasm, vocabulary, and “think-alouds.”
What is the Tutor Read-Aloud?
Name one of the EC (Experience Corps) program managers you can contact for support during the school year.
Who is Jasmine Runfal, Sabrina Cisneros, or Sarah Posluszny?
During read-aloud, tutors should focus on introducing or revisiting this element of language growth.
What is highlighting 2–3 vocabulary words?
Your student masters their RAZ book after multiple sessions, with 90% accuracy. What happens next?
They get to keep the RAZ Book and take it home!
How many fairy godmothers does Cinderella wish she had?
One
Name one reason why Quality Talk is important.
1- Expansion of Comprehension and Critical Thinking skills
2- Process information through Language
3-Back and forth conversations provide opportunities to think and process information
4- Open-ended question engages students and activates thinking
5- Speaker gets a greater opportunity to practice
If you can’t attend your session, you must email or call your program manager or contact this email address.
What is Volunteers@sccsc.org? (or contacting either one of the EC Program Managers- Jasmine, Sabrina, and Sarah)
How many Fluency Fun Reading Games should be played during each session?
What are 3-5 Fluency Games?
If your student is saying things like "This is too hard for me" or "I can't read that" What do you do?
Focus on the positives - Reinforcing that reading is a skill that needs practice
How many wishes did Aladdin get from the Genie?
Three