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Download full textDeering, Albert R.
This manual for tutors participating in the Homework Helper Program (which employs high school students or graduates as tutors for elementary school students) opens with generalizations of the characteristics of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students intended as a base of understanding for tutors. The next section focuses on the varying…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Peer reviewedBrooks, Allison; Vaughan, Katherine; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Seventeen fourth and fifth graders with severe writing disabilities received a weekly one-hour individual tutorial which focused equally on transcription (handwriting and spelling) and composition skills. Students showed reliable improvement in composition and handwriting automaticity but not in spelling. Suggestions for teaching phonological…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Handwriting, Individualized Instruction
