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Peer reviewedRichardson, Donald C.; Havlicek, Larry L. – Elementary School Journal, 1975
This study demonstrated that 49 teen-age high school tutors, under the guidance and assistance of competent reading consultants, could bring about gains in the reading achievement of 215 elementary school children reading at least one year below their grade level. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Individual Instruction, Reading Achievement
Download full textHarrison, Grant V.; Brimley, Vern – 1971
The feasibility of devising a highly individualized reading program for low-achieving 6-year-old children centering on structured tutoring was investigated. The 33 subjects from three schools would enter first grade in the fall and were considered low achievers on the basis of kindergarten testing. Upper-grade elementary students volunteered to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, 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
