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Wallace, Yolanda Gayles – 1990
A volunteer program coordinator developed and implemented an 8-month practicum study that provided opportunities for interaction between 20 elderly adult tutors--residents of 2 senior citizen facilities--and 37 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students at five elementary schools in low- and middle-class metropolitan black communities. The tutoring…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Fletcher, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1998
William McKinley Middle School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has a parent volunteer program called FOCUS that targets average students who are not doing well academically. Program goals are to improve students' organizational skills, help them complete homework assignments, and reteach and preview lessons to increase understanding, so that students will…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Download full textFuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project that investigated the effectiveness of class-wide, peer-mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of sustained oral reading practice, in which…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
