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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 as young as fourth grade build confidence as they work with program coordinators to learn
and practice reading or math strategies in preparation for teaching their tutees.
Program coordinators lend support and monitor progress through the three steps of each tutorial:
- Tutor preparation (45 minutes to one hour)
- Lesson (30 to 45 minutes)
- Tutor debriefing (15 minutes)
Reading Together elementary-level programs support a gradual release of responsibility from tutor to tutee, until the tutee engages 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.
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
Math Together makes math real and exciting, encouraging upper elementary students to investigate and
experiment. Lessons are arranged sequentially as students build on
skills learned. The program enhances motivation and decreases anxiety, 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.
Math Together Strategies
Math Together Phase I Sample Lesson
Math Together Phase II Sample Lesson
Tutor training and scripted lessons ensure uniformity of scope and sequence.
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