Backpack Tutoring
One-on-One Tutoring in Math, Reading, & Writing
Backpack Tutoring is a new tutor program that places volunteers in elementary schools throughout Wake County for children in grades K-5 at no cost to the school or the parents. Our tutors work one-on-one with children who are below grade level in math, reading, and writing and at risk of retention.
Backpack Tutoring offers support in three areas: reading, writing, and math.
We offer reading, writing, and math support for children below grade level by placing tutors with backpacks equipped with books, activities, and games personalized to meet the child’s individual needs.
We offer reading support for students who have been identified by a teacher as having literacy skills below grade level. The volunteers guide children as they read aloud encouraging them to make predictions about the content using prior knowledge and text features, helping them to restate the main ideas of the story and to identify characters. Support is offered for kindergarten students in letter, number, and sound recognition.
Writing support is offered to help students improve handwriting skills and develop and edit their original stories.
Our math tutors support the skills that are being taught in class using hands-on material, worksheets, games, and books.
We match caring and competent adults with students according to the child’s individual needs and levels. Our tutors receive support and training from Backpack Tutoring and the partnering school before tutoring a child and receive continuous training throughout the school year. The volunteers are placed according to their time and site preference and confer on a continuing basis with the child’s teacher.
The teachers are asked to identify students who they feel are below grade in reading, writing, and math. Once the child is identified Backpack Tutoring pairs the child with a tutor. The tutor is equipped with a backpack that is targeted to meet the child’s needs. The teacher has the opportunity to review the materials in the bag before the tutoring sessions begin and may add or modify the contents as she/he feels necessary. Or the teacher may provide the tutor with the study materials for the student.
The benefits of offering tutors to teachers is that it will encourage children to ask more questions, give children with low self-esteem more confidence, and bring children below grade level up to grade level. It is a cost effective way to improve student achievement. Our program also builds better communication skills between tutors, teachers, parents, and students.
Backpack Tutoring offers support in three areas: reading, writing, and math.
We offer reading, writing, and math support for children below grade level by placing tutors with backpacks equipped with books, activities, and games personalized to meet the child’s individual needs.
We offer reading support for students who have been identified by a teacher as having literacy skills below grade level. The volunteers guide children as they read aloud encouraging them to make predictions about the content using prior knowledge and text features, helping them to restate the main ideas of the story and to identify characters. Support is offered for kindergarten students in letter, number, and sound recognition.
Writing support is offered to help students improve handwriting skills and develop and edit their original stories.
Our math tutors support the skills that are being taught in class using hands-on material, worksheets, games, and books.
We match caring and competent adults with students according to the child’s individual needs and levels. Our tutors receive support and training from Backpack Tutoring and the partnering school before tutoring a child and receive continuous training throughout the school year. The volunteers are placed according to their time and site preference and confer on a continuing basis with the child’s teacher.
The teachers are asked to identify students who they feel are below grade in reading, writing, and math. Once the child is identified Backpack Tutoring pairs the child with a tutor. The tutor is equipped with a backpack that is targeted to meet the child’s needs. The teacher has the opportunity to review the materials in the bag before the tutoring sessions begin and may add or modify the contents as she/he feels necessary. Or the teacher may provide the tutor with the study materials for the student.
The benefits of offering tutors to teachers is that it will encourage children to ask more questions, give children with low self-esteem more confidence, and bring children below grade level up to grade level. It is a cost effective way to improve student achievement. Our program also builds better communication skills between tutors, teachers, parents, and students.