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Morrison, Connie Strong – Reading Horizons, 1974
Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
McLaughlin, John Thomas – 1975
This study investigated the relative effectiveness of books on reading achievement scores when earned by under-achieving readers in a student tutoring program. Fifty-three fifth grade students who were in below grade level classroom reading groups and who scored from six months to three years below grade level on at least one of two reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Achievement
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Cramer, Ward – Elementary School Journal, 1971
Describes a tutorial method of individualized, programmed reading instruction that doesn't require and sophisticated materials for its implementation. (AN)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Instruction, Programed Tutoring, Reading Instruction
Program for Action by Citizens in Education, Cleveland, OH. – 1968
The Early Reading Assistance Program was developed and implemented by a nonprofit citizens organization (Programs for Action by Citizens in Education) funded by a Jennings Foundation Grant to provide tutorial reading assistance for children in 17 suburban Cleveland Public Schools. The volunteer tutors were mainly middle-aged, middle-class…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Parent Associations, Parent Participation
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Raim, Joan – Reading Teacher, 1973
Stresses the importance of developing the tutoring programs in remedial reading and suggests a program of inservice education for reading tutors. (RB)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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
Ford, Genevieve M. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 8, Listening Skills, Oral Reading
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Eckel, Jim – Journal of Reading, 1980
Shows how a structured tutoring program helped increase both student and tutor reading scores. (JT)
Descriptors: Organization, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
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
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Lane, Patrick; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Cross Age Teaching
Vadasy, Patricia – 2002
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of a project designed to investigate the sustainability of two federally funded intervention programs by school staff. The first, Eastlake High School Inclusion Program, implemented processes and instructional interventions designed to support the full inclusion of students with disabilities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Design, Program Development
Platt, Gail M. – 1992
An assessment of the activities of the Learning Center (LC) at South Plains College is provided in this 1991-92 annual report. Introductory material describes the scope of the LC's operations, including reading and study skills remediation, developmental communications instruction, collegiate instruction in reading and human development, peer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Learning Resources Centers
Dorsey, Mary E., Comp. – 1975
This handbook is designed for tutors in a language arts tutorial program for migrant students who are deficient in reading and language skills. Introductory materials discuss the special problems of migrant children, point to programs developed to meet their needs, and explain the basic design of the tutorial program. The handbook then discusses…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods