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| Following the steps to success |
Learning Together tutorials are designed around structured interactions, with step-by-step, scripted lessons that consistently reinforce strategies for intentional thinking and active engagement. In each lesson, all of the language arts — reading, writing, speaking and listening — are practiced. Students have multiple opportunities to interact with text and practice skills, as tutors monitor progress and lend support. Tutors build confidence as they work with program coordinators to learn and practice reading or math strategies. |
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Program coordinators lend support and monitor progress through the three steps of each tutorial: |
- Tutor preparation (15 minutes to one hour, depending on tutor model)
- Lesson (30 to 40 minutes)
- Tutor debriefing (five to 15 minutes, depending on tutor model)
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Reading Together supports a gradual release of responsibility from tutor to tutee, until tutees engage in true independent reading. |
- Phase I (15 lessons) - Tutor directed: Tutors model fluent reading and think aloud.
- Phase II (12 lessons) - Shared responsibility: Tutors and tutees share reading a trade book.
- Phase III (three lessons) - Independent reading: Tutees select and read books from the media center.
Summer programs are condensed to 15 lessons: 10 from Phase I and five from Phase II.
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Reading Together Strategies
Stages of a Reading Together Phase I Lesson
Reading Together Grade Two Sample Lesson
Reading Together Grade Three Sample Lesson
Reading Together Intermediate Sample Lesson
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| Math Together makes math real and exciting, encouraging students to investigate and experiment. Lessons are arranged sequentially as students build on skills learned. The program enhances motivation, creating an environment for math literacy. |
- Phase I (15 lessons) - Tutors and tutees take turns reading aloud from passages about historical figures and events. Launch activities explore concepts to be covered. Tutors introduce SOLVE, a paradigm that prompts tutees as they solve addition and subtraction word problems. Tutees then write their own problems based on the passage. At the end of each lesson, tutees respond to questions in their journals, reinforcing math concepts and writing skills.
- Phase II (15 lessons) - Follows the same format, with multiplication higher-level problem solving.
Phase I is used in summer programs; Phase II may be used as a continuation in the fall.
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Math Together Strategies
Math Together Phase I Sample Lesson
Math Together Phase II Sample Lesson
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| Tutor training and scripted lessons ensure uniformity of scope and sequence. |
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 |  | Another valuable means [of improving student performance] is the use of peer and cross-age tutoring to extend and expand the instructional opportunities for students experiencing difficulty…. Reading Together is a very well conceived and valuable program, both for tutors and tutees. The program includes many of the ingredients thought to be important to fostering literacy learning in young children.
—Dorothy Strickland, Rutgers University |
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