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Curtis, Deborah A.; Hurtado, Rosemary – 2001
The America Reads Project is a program that trains San Francisco State University (SFSU) undergraduates to serve as tutors in local elementary schools. This paper focuses on the findings from the 3rd year of the project (1999-2000). For the 3rd year, 55 undergraduates were trained in a 3-unit course. Eleven elementary schools participated in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Wilson, Jennifer – 2003
The America Reads Challenge (ARC) program, part of AmeriCorps, has the primary goal of ensuring that all children can read proficiently by the end of third grade. In Mississippi, the ARC program is referred to as the America Reads-Mississippi (ARM) program. In 1999, 37 schools in 25 school districts participated in this program, sponsored by 3…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Hawes, Kathryn S.; Colwell, Clyde G. – 1981
The college of education at a midwestern university has designed a program for training senior citizen volunteers to tutor elementary school students in reading and language arts. Development of the Time Of Our Lives for Service (T. O. O. L. S.) program included establishing goals and objectives for the program that were subject to administrative…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Older Adults
Harris, Connie; And Others – 1977
This paper describes four Arizona schools' peer tutoring programs in reading and study skills for specific content areas. The first, at West High School, stresses training of tutors in self-awareness and specific teaching techniques. A special time is set aside for tutoring; a waiting list attests to the program's success. At Central High School,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Strong, Mary Winifred; Traynelis-Yurek, Elaine – 1983
Studied for its effects on the reading fluency of elementary school students, R. C. Heckleman's Neurological Impress Method has proved an inexpensive but effective method for motivating low achievement readers. Twenty-six subjects from grades 2 to 6 practiced reading in unison with a tutor during four 15-minute sessions a week. During the sessions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Reading, Motivation Techniques, Reading Difficulties
Graves, Michael F. – 1977
A tutoring program has been developed for the purpose of teaching reading to secondary school students seriously deficient in reading skills. The first section of this paper describes the highly structured instructional program that is employed. It also notes preliminary results of the tutoring, which indicate that 17 of the 25 students tested…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Peer Teaching, Program Evaluation, Reading Instruction
George, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Watkins, Alice V. – 1981
The study investigated three models--the traditional classroom reading instructional model, a one to one tutorial model, and a reading resource center model--for providing reading instruction to 110 disadvantaged inner city children in junior high school educable mentally retarded (EMR) classes. The effectiveness of programmed instructional…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Junior High Schools, Mild Mental Retardation
Lefevre, Carl A. – 1972
This paper describes "Reading by Patterns," a remedial tutorial program for young adults. The principal aim of instruction is to help students transform their normal fluency in speaking English into a parallel ability to read simple, printed English sentences and paragraphs. As the instruction progresses from the simple noun-verb-noun…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Programed Instructional Materials, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Rodgers, Emily – 1999
A detailed analysis was conducted of the patterns of interactions between a child and a teacher in a one-to-one reading tutorial setting in the context of the Reading Recovery literacy program. The interactions between a teacher and two of her students were observed, videotaped, and analyzed. The participation of the two students in problem…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Interaction, Literacy

Avant, Glen R. – 1979
Nineteen children, aged 7 through 17, were pretested, individually tutored in reading for 12 weeks, and posttested in a study to examine the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control and locus of evaluation of children with reading disabilities. A reliable, valid measure of locus of control and locus of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Individualized Reading, Learning Disabilities
Dempsey, June – 1975
This paper offers many specific suggestions for improving community college reading instruction through counseling and content. Such topics are discussed as reading and writing laboratories; multimedia instruction; group instruction classes in basic reading skills, vocabulary and study skills, and analytical and critical reading; individualized…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Individual Counseling, Learning Laboratories

Anderson, Jonathan – 1990
Computer-based technologies are rapidly changing fundamental concepts about texts and how students interact with and learn from those texts. Early use of microcomputers included drill and practice work, tutorial programs, and word processing. In conjunction with information storage devices like magnetic and laser disc, the microcomputer has also…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software Development
Herrmann, Beth Ann – 1990
The primary purpose of the Student Literacy Corps Project is to: (1) improve the literacy skills of approximately 200 educationally disadvantaged children and increase the parents' involvement in their children's literacy development; (2) provide a tutoring experience for approximately 45 undergraduate students and a coaching experience for…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Literacy, Higher Education
Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A. – 1995
The Success for All model of instruction, which seeks to prevent academic problems in elementary school by addressing reading difficulties with early, intensive intervention, is described. The approach, begun with native English-speaking students at risk academically, provides tutoring from prekindergarten or kindergarten onward, particularly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Dropout Prevention, Educational Strategies
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