Tutoring Tips to Minimize Summer Slide Schools of Hope Advanced Tutor Training April 20, 2016 Dr. MaryAnn Nickel Sonoma State University Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu What is Summer Slide? Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu When summer is over and students return to school, teachers find that many students have fallen behind their previous year gain. National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) confirms that teachers spend a significant amount of time re-teaching material due to summer learning loss--three to six weeks re-teaching material from the previous school year. A Johns Hopkins study of Baltimore Public Schools notes that low-income youths “lose more than two months in reading achievement” over summer vacation, while their middle-class counterparts make small gains in reading achievement. Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

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Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Important to Note! Shin & Krashen report in their synthesis of all summer slide in reading research: All kids make about the same amount of progress during the school year The difference among children of all income levels appears to be heavily influenced by what happens over the summer. Children from higher income families make growth over the summer Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

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Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu “The crucial activity that occurs during the summer, the activity that causes the difference in growth in literacy, is recreational reading.” (p.19) Shin & Krashen, Summer Reading, Pearson, 2008 Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Can Summer Slide be prevented? What’s a tutor to do? Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Write a stack of letters. Put them in a cool envelope of folder. And date them for every few weeks of the summer. Use the vocabulary lists you have been working on with your tutee Put some of the poems in our handout in the folder Put the student’s writing in the folder Add some environmental print. Put the nearest library card info in the folder in Spanish and English Put the summer reading for kids schedule in the folder too! Give them a book, if you can Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Kids read when they see themselves as readers! Practice honest, positive talk about their reading skills. Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Students’ Literate Identities Students’ reading identity is formed over time. Their identities are built on their experiences in school and the identities that they learn to embody. Time to look at second to last page! Simply put: Your literate identity influences how you read! (Hall, 2012; O’Brien, Stewart, & Beach, 2009) Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Kids do not feel like competent readers if they are asked to read silly texts. For example. . . Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Pause for Some Silliness Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

What Is Important to Know & Share Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

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Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu The Best Books for Many Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu The Best Books for Many Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Kids read what they say! Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

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Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Take some photos Ask: What were you doing in this picture? Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu Resources http://sonomalibrary.org/kids Get a Sonoma County Library Card http://ask.sonomalibrary.org/faq/1758 Good books for younger readers http://www.ala.org/alsc/compubs/booklists/greatreads/greatearlyelemreads Always check Amazon’s books for suggestions Readicide http://rhsweb.org/library/PDF/Readicide.pdf Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu

Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu To Sum Up All students experience learning loss when they do not engage in reading, thinking activities over the summer Traditional Summer School is not the answer What you do now matters What you have been doing has already mattered! Created by Dr. MaryAnn Nickel, nickel@sonoma.edu