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Handouts for your tutees What tutors do and don’t do. This helpful, one-page handout clarifies the relationship between tutor and tutee. Why English is so hard—A poetry handout. This humorous poem is a great ice-breaker for tutees. A tutor’s reading strategy for textbooks. Tutees who don’t know how to study from a textbook will benefit from this handout.

	Tips for successful tutoring Questioning techniques for tutors. Here are five types of questions that will help you discover what a tutee knows and will keep a session interesting.
A tutor’s questions for reading assignments. This paper presents three types of questions that will encourage tutees to engage with the text. A tutor’s analysis of the role of prediction in reading. In this lengthy discourse, the author argues that reading is impossible without prediction, and that prediction is routinely practiced by both beginning and fluent readers.

The tutoring experience Overview of tutor training seminar. This paper explains the 11 goals of the tutor training program and describes how people learn. Tutoring as empowerment. This paper explains how to develop a tutee’s power.

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