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Tips for reading with your student:
- It is ok for you to read out loud to your student.
- Make up silly or dramatic voices – or have fun with it in whatever way you choose.
- Ask questions and encourage conversation as you read, there is no need to just stick to the text.
All of the stories below are appropriate for your student’s assessed level of comprehension. They range from 100 to 700+ Lexile and are ordered from easiest to most challenging text. This means that you may want to support your student more in reading some of these stories than others. Above all, have fun reading together!
Try the following tips and activities for further enrichment:

- Before reading a story, look at pictures or videos about the content or location of the story to make it come to life.
- Ask students to write a review, or a single sentence, describing what they just read.
- When you find a book that your student loves, look for other books with the same author or genre to try reading that, too.
- Guide to Questions Before, During, and After Reading

- Talk over what your student already knows about a topic they’re interested in, for example: animals, outer space, science or medicine, under the sea, or forms of transportation. In particular, social studies content has been shown to support literacy learning!
- Watch a couple of short videos to enrich understanding about the topic.
- Find an article with something that’s happened recently and/or locally related to the topic – if you have to read it out loud to your student, that’s fine.
- Finally, read a book (at your student’s reading level) together about it!
- Click here for examples of vocabulary activities by Susan Jones Teaching.

- Ask your student to practice reading out loud.
- Read out loud to your student. For younger students, make it interactive and silly!
- Echo reading: ask your student to imitate you as you read. Choose a paragraph, story, or even script with lots of different types of expression, such as whispering, speaking loudly, dramatic pauses, or silly voices.
- Act out a scene together with as much drama as you can, while reading from a script.

- What the Science Says About How Kids Learn to Read (YouTube Video)
- Reading 101 guide from Reading Rockets (This resource is written for parents but contains lots of useful information for tutors.)
- Reading Rockets games (These games are designed to be played in person.)
Additional resources:
- Click here for a customizable session outline (pdf).
- Visit our Literacy Program website.
- Visit the Literacy Program FAQs.
- If you need additional materials, email us at literacy@schoolonwheels.org.