A BIG thank you to our community partner, The Study at Yale, for giving us packets of seeds for our tutors. Our tutors are planting the seeds of literacy with their students every time they come to New Haven Reads and we appreciate our volunteers so much! Thanks to The Study for all of their Read more
New Haven Reads offers three 6-week SAT Prep classes each year. The goal of each class is to enrich vocabulary, improve reading comprehension, review and build mathematics skills, and learn to write a successful essay. This class, like everything at NHR, is free. Students in their 12th grade (senior) year will receive preference for the Read more
This tip focuses on vocabulary building! Does your student struggle with a certain vocabulary word? Or maybe you want to introduce your student to more words during the tutoring hour. Try this tactic with your student during your next session. Step 1: Choose a word of the day. Maybe it is a word you Read more
AmeriCorps Week may have just finished but at New Haven Reads, we continue to love our AmeriCorps VISTA! Theresa, who hails from Wisconsin, is both our Book Bank Manager and the Assistant Site Director at our Bristol Street location. She joined the NHR team last summer and will remain with us until the end of Read more
This exercise is a great reading comprehension exercise for younger and older students. Use this exercise to get your students to think about why they are reading. The K stands for “Know”, the W stand for “Will or Want” and the L stands for “Learn”. Before reading, ask your students the first two questions illustrated Read more
New Haven Reads is seeking two AmeriCorps VISTA members who will work in two main areas: our after school tutoring program and our Book Bank. VISTA members will work from July 8, 2013 to July 11, 2014 Please see the attached document for a more detailed description of these positions. Job Posting for two VISTA Read more
Good readers preview text before reading. Reading comprehension is not an automatic or passive process. It is highly interactive and planned. These are strategies to use before reading a text. Step 1: Set a goal For younger students ask questions like, “Why did you pick this book?”. Be sure to respond to the student’s Read more
The Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven is hosting a literacy forum on March, 28th. All are invited to attend, though space is limited. R.S.V.P. to info@literacyeverday.org . Literacy Forum on Early Learning March 28, 2013 One Hamden Center- 2319 Whitney Avenue, Suite 2B, Hamden, CT 06518 9-10:30am Speakers: Myra Jones-Taylor, Read more
Use this tip when your student is struggling with a word! This is especially great for sight words. Step 1: Tutor selects a word and writes it clearly. Step 2: Have student choose any 5 colors! Any 5! This is their rainbow. Read more
Is your student reading passages out loud and ignoring punctuation? Try this exercise with your student: Step 1: List fragments of the alphabet with various puntucation marks ABCD! EFG? HI. JKL. MN! OPQR. STU? VWXY…Z! Step 2: Take turns reading the letters while attending to punctuation Step 3: Repeat with a new format! Attending to punctuation Read more
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