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Download full textAbouzeid, Mary P.; Fowler, Mary Claiborne – 1998
Book Buddies is a community volunteer tutorial that began in Charlottesville, Virginia in the early 1990s as a cooperative effort between the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville City Schools and the Charlottesville community. A replication of Book Buddies was designed in fall of 1997 for two elementary schools in Millville, Virginia. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Low Income
Peer reviewedHeward, William L.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1986
Within the context of an ongoing classwide peer tutoring system for sight words, a training program was conducted to teach first-grade peer tutors to provide verbal praise for correct responses on an intermittent schedule. After training, the four observed tutors successfully delivered praise on the desired schedule. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Peer Teaching, Positive Reinforcement
Peer reviewedCoates, Keith S.; McLaughlin, T. F. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
Evaluation of effects of parent tutoring in word recognition with flash cards with a slow learning seven year old found neither number of words read or frequency of errors was changed by the intervention, but subjective measures did support the intervention's effectiveness. Results suggest the need for parent training for effective home…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Drills (Practice), Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
