This accessible, jargon-free tutor-training manual can help any motivated adult make a difference in the life of a child who needs help improving his or her reading skills. The manual addresses:

• Best practices for tutoring children;
• Appropriate children's books;
• Assessment and instruction;
• Working with the classroom teacher;
• Adaptation of content-area materials to tutoring situations;
• Age appropriateness and its relationship to tutoring;
• Working with the English language learner;
• Emerging literacy;
• Responsibilities and legal issues; and
• Documentation