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Peer reviewedJenkins, Joseph R.; Jenkins, Linda M. – Educational Leadership, 1987
The Lake Washington School District (WA) has developed a successful peer tutoring program for elementary and secondary students. Identifies the characteristics of successful tutoring programs, how to start a program, recruitment and scheduling needs, selection of tutors and learners, and how to maintain tutor involvement. Includes a table and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedJenkins, Joseph R.; Vadasy, Patricia F.; Firebaugh, Mary; Profilet, Cathy – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2000
Description of a tutoring program for struggling 1st grade readers focuses on use of Sound Partners, a program designed for non-teacher tutors. This program emphasizes basic phonological awareness and phonological reading skills. The article describes the program's theoretical ancestry, application, research outcomes, and obstacles/solutions…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Phonology
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A.; Jenkins, Joseph R. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2002
A study compared students at risk for reading disabilities who were provided phonics-based instruction in first grade (n=13), students tutored in comprehension skills in second grade (n=10), and students tutored in both grades (n=26). Students tutored only in first grade performed better than those also tutored in second grade. (Contains…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics, Primary Education
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Twenty at-risk first graders received 30 minutes of individual instruction from community tutors four days a week for up to 23 weeks. Subjects outperformed the control group on all reading, decoding, spelling and segmenting, and writing measures. Tutors who implemented the program with a high degree of fidelity achieved significant effect sizes in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pool, Kathleen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
Twenty-three first-graders at risk for learning disabilities received one-to-one tutoring from noncertified tutors for 30 minutes, 4 days a week, for one school year. Tutoring included instruction in phonological skills, explicit decoding, writing, spelling, and reading phonically controlled text. Participants significantly outperformed controls…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Decoding (Reading), Early Intervention, Grade 1
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Jenkins, Linda M. – 1982
Designed for use by teacher educators, this module provides a framework for examining current practice in training preservice teachers to deal with slow learners in the regular classroom. The focus is on establishing peer and cross-age tutoring programs. A rationale for tutoring is given by describing the relation between academic engaged time and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cross Age Teaching, Higher Education, Individual Instruction
