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Tutoring is Caring: You Can Help Someone to Read.

Wolf, Aline D. – 1976

This manual for elementary school reading tutors emphasizes that a positive attitude--caring about the student--is the most important ingredient in a successful tutoring relationship. After an introductory section on tutoring, the manual presents these basic steps for teaching reading: sounding out consonants and short vowels, word building,…

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities

Human Capital or Cultural Capital? Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District. Social Institutions and Social Change Series.

Farkas, George – 1996

An intervention designed to increase the reading skills, habits, and styles of low-performing elementary school students was implemented in the Dallas Independent School District (Texas). The issues surrounding implementation illustrate many of the problems of inner-city schooling and disadvantaged students and offer some solutions. The Reading…

Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity