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Download full textThomas, Robert L. – 1993
Answering a variety of questions about cross-age and peer tutoring, this digest provides information on how tutoring programs are organized, how to start programs, why tutoring programs are effective, and what the critical ingredients of peer programs are. The digest briefly discusses two examples of effective programs recognized by the National…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts
Peer reviewedTaylor, Barbara M.; Hanson, Barbara E.; Justice-Swanson, Karen; Watts, Susan M. – Reading Teacher, 1997
Describes a reading intervention program that combined a modified enrichment program with cross-age tutoring and that resulted in significant gains in reading for both students and tutors. (SR)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Intervention, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Nagan, Carole – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of an immersion-in-literacy program in a first-grade classroom. Six of the 22 students (all six were boys) indicated on a reading attitude survey that they did not like to read books. The classroom teacher set up her classroom so that it fostered literacy development. Some of the experiences and activities she…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Classroom Environment, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
