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Download full textLane, Karen Sue – 1997
A study examined whether cross-grade peer tutoring increased student performance on weekly spelling tests. Subjects, 7 sixth graders and 19 second graders attending Coal City Elementary School in Raleigh County, West Virginia, spent 10 minutes each day for 9 weeks working on spelling. The experimental group used cross-grade peer tutoring and the…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 6
Ankcorn, Denise – 1999
The purpose of this study was to see if cross-age tutoring by high schoolers would have an effect on the students' understanding and ability to write a short story. High schoolers, in an elective creative writing course, were paired up with sixth graders from a local feeder elementary. The high schoolers spent time studying specific short story…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 6, High School Students
Carli, Susan M. – 1996
An action research project describes a cross-age tutoring program to help increase the reading achievement of targeted second graders. The targeted population consisted of second and fifth graders in a middle class suburban community west of a large midwestern city. The problems of poor word attack skills and reading comprehension were documented…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Ramunda, Jeanne M. – 1994
A study was designed to examine the effectiveness of repeated reading in fluency and comprehension. A cross-age reading program was used to give students a purpose for rereading material. The children in a second-grade classroom in a private school in suburban New Jersey were randomly assigned to two sample groups. The experimental group read to a…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Peer Teaching
Dashner, Carol – 1995
A study examined the effectiveness of a project to increase reading readiness skills. The targeted population consisted of kindergarten students in a growing middle class community located in northern Illinois. The problems of lack of reading readiness were documented through teacher observation and district assessment tools. Analysis of probable…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Toth, Gail M. – 1997
A study determined if cross-age pairing of first-grade and sixth-grade students would have an effect on writing achievement. For 6 weeks, one group of beginning first-grade writers was paired with more able sixth-grade developing writers, while another group of beginning first-grade writers and sixth-grade developing writers was not cross-age…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Grade 6
