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Download full textMacro International, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 2000
The DC Reads program was first implemented during the 1997-1998 school year as a partnership among the Corporation for National Service; District of Columbia Public Schools; Communities in Schools (CIS), a nonprofit corporation; and six local universities, with Georgetown University acting as lead. During the 1998-1999 school year, it expanded to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Partnerships in Education, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
"We're Supposed To Already Know How To Teach Reading": Teacher Change To Support Struggling Readers.
Peer reviewedBroaddus, Karen; Bloodgood, Janet W. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1999
Explores the evolving perspectives of six school members who served as tutors (three first-grade teachers, two Title I teachers, and the school principal) on professional development, classroom language arts instruction, and school-wide literacy curriculum. Describes how the program shifted to teacher development and curriculum reform as school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts
Abouzeid, 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 reviewedVaughn, Sharon; Linan-Thompson, Sylvia; Kouzekanani, Kamiar; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Dickson, Shirley; Blozis, Shelley A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2003
The effects of three grouping formats (1:1 [one teacher with one student], 1:3, and 1:10) on outcomes for second grade struggling readers was studied. All students received the same reading intervention for the same number of sessions and made significant gains. Both 1:1 and 1:3 were highly effective intervention group sizes but 1:1 was not…
Descriptors: Class Size, Grade 2, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Instructional Effectiveness
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
Wasik, Barbara A. – 1997
The America Reads challenge makes a national commitment to the goal that every child will read independently and well by the end of the third grade. The primary means of achieving this goal is to place one million volunteers in schools to tutor children in reading. However, little is known about the effectiveness of using volunteer tutors in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Outcomes of Education
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
Curry, Janice; And Others – 1995
Reading Recovery is an early intervention program designed to reach first-grade students who are having the most trouble learning to read. Students meet daily with specially trained teachers for an average of 12 to 20 weeks. Reading Recovery began in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District in 1992-93. In 1993-94, Reading Recovery served 268…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Peer reviewedBaenen, Nancy; Bernholc, Alissa; Dulaney, Chuck; Banks, Karen – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Results from a longitudinal study of the implementation of the Reading Recovery (RR) program in the Wake County Public School System (North Carolina) for 1990 through 1994 show achievement gains for RR students, although these gains lessen in recent years. Reasons for inconsistent benefits after the first year are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cohort Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedInvernizzi, Marcia; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1997
Describes the Charlottesville (Virginia) Volunteer Tutorial, a one-on-one tutorial program that promotes the literacy development of young children and involves a wide range of community volunteers. Suggests that the program offers one model of an affordable, alternative form of early intervention. (SR)
Descriptors: Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Allen, Camille A. – 1996
A major crisis facing urban education is the inability of predominantly white, middle-class college students to deal with the realities of the urban primary school. A program that brings education majors into the urban school is described. The idea of partnership is the guiding principle of this program, in which college students, local teachers…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Education Majors, Higher Education
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
