What reading programs have been proven to help students in grades 2-5 to succeed? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on three types of programs designed to improve the reading achievement of students in grades 2-5: (1) Reading Curricula (Curr), such as "Open Court," "Harcourt," "Reading Street" and other standard and alternative…

This article describes a reading comprehension program adopted at J. E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School in Salt Lake City, Utah. The program is called SHARE: Students Helping Achieve Reading Excellence, and involves seventh and eighth grade students teaching first and second graders reading comprehension strategies learned in middle school…

All (172) second grade nonreaders in Title I schools received structured tutoring from intermediate age youngsters 15 minutes per day, four days per week for five months in a program to remediate reading skills. Control Subjects were randomly selected, without regard for reading ability, from the total grade 2 population of three non-Title I…

This study sought to determine the effect of the Grant Von Harrison Lay Tutor Program on low-achieving, sixth-grade students who became tutors and on low-achieving second graders who were tutored. Experimental groups and control groups of sixth graders were formed from a list provided by the principal. Students were pre- and posttested for reading…

A study was designed to examine the effectiveness of repeated reading in fluency and comprehension. A cross-age reading program was used to give students a purpose for rereading material. The children in a second-grade classroom in a private school in suburban New Jersey were randomly assigned to two sample groups. The experimental group read to a…