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Direct linkAl Otaiba, Stephanie; Lake, Vickie E.; Greulich, Luana; Folsom, Jessica S.; Guidry, Lisa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This randomized-control trial examined the learning of preservice teachers taking an initial Early Literacy course in an early childhood education program and of the kindergarten or first grade students they tutored in their field experience. Preservice teachers were randomly assigned to one of two tutoring programs: Book Buddies and Tutor…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Learning Strategies
Download full textDobson, Lee – 1975
The Junior League/Vancouver School Board tutorial Program began in September 1973. A coordinator was hired to train and supervise community volunteers who would tutor children with reading difficulties using a synthetic phonic program with multisensory reinforcement. Forty children, seventy-seven tutors, and twenty-two schools have participated in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Community Involvement, Performance Criteria, Phonics
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Twenty at-risk first graders received 30 minutes of individual instruction from community tutors four days a week for up to 23 weeks. Subjects outperformed the control group on all reading, decoding, spelling and segmenting, and writing measures. Tutors who implemented the program with a high degree of fidelity achieved significant effect sizes in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
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
Mayfield, Laureen Goers – 2000
This study evaluated the effects of using the Edmark Reading Program, Level 1, to develop sight-word vocabulary in first graders at risk for reading failure. This program is a highly structured approach based on providing explicit, direct instruction that is intensive, focused, and not of brief duration. The 62 students receiving the intervention…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedAbbott, Sylvia P.; Reed, Elizabeth; Abbott, Robert D.; Berninger, Virginia W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Sixteen children with severe reading problems in first grade received a year-long individual tutorial intervention. Growth curve analyses found significant gains on measures of orthographic and phonological coding, word identification, word attack skills, reading comprehension, letter automaticity, and spelling and marginally significant gains in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Grade 1
