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Download full textRosberg, Merilee A. – 2001
As a direct result of the passage of the America Reads Challenge Act in 1997, Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has developed a reading tutor program. The program includes a college credit course and on-site visits by college faculty supervising student tutors. This article includes the rationale for development of a credit course for reading…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedJacobson, Julie; Thrope, Lynne; Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane; Frey, Nancy; Flood, James – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Describes the implementation and evaluation of a cross-age tutoring program in which 21 struggling seventh-grade readers tutored third-graders, based on strategies and preparation they learned in their own Strategic Reading class. Notes that reading skills and enjoyment of these seventh-grade students were significantly expanded. Discusses factors…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 3, Grade 7
