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Direct linkSarah Novicoff; Susanna Loeb – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, tutoring has gained popularity as a strategy to improve the academic achievement of struggling students. Intensive, relationship-based tutoring is a highly effective academic support for many students. A range of tutoring approaches are available to accelerate young students' literacy. Sarah Novicoff and Susanna Loeb…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Tutoring, COVID-19, Pandemics
Goldman, Juliette D. G.; Grimbeek, Peter – Pastoral Care in Education, 2016
The processes of puberty are now commonly observed in primary school-aged students. Schools, therefore, need to address puberty and sexuality education for students' health, well-being, safety and pastoral care. Similarly, preservice teacher education needs to address future primary school teachers' unfamiliarity and lack of confidence with these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Download full textLundblad, Helen; Smith, Carl B.
This guide is an aid to trainers of tutors who will work with primary grade children in reading tasks. There are 12 units contained in this program: the tutor's role, human relations, giving an interest inventory, setting instructional objectives, assessing reading difficulty, the lesson plan, evaluation of student success, reading instruction…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedHimmelsteib, Carol – Reading Teacher, 1975
Describes a reading program designed to help slow readers bridge the summer gap between the first and second grade. (RB)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement
Laffey, James; Perkins, Phyllis
This handbook presents an orientation program for volunteer reading teachers. Four units covered include an overview of the volunteer tutoring program, the classroom teacher's public relations role in the program, implementation of the tutoring program, and the classroom teacher's administrative or managerial role in the volunteer tutoring…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Invernizzi, Marcia; Juel, Connie – 1998
The "Book Buddies" manual and "Emergent Reader" training videos provide comprehensive and easy-to-implement guidelines for setting up and running a successful tutorial program in the early grades. Portraying the "Book Buddies" model in practice, this 51-minute videotape entitled "Emergent Reader--Day One"…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Carroll, Mary Howley – Tenessee Education, 1973
Twenty high school seniors from a psychology class were used to tutor 20 primary grade pupils. (NQ)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, High School Students, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Ronshausen, Nina L. – Educational Technology, 1975
A look at programmed tutoring, an effective method for one-to-one individualized instruction in kindergarten and first grade. (Author)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Primary Education, Programed Instruction
Ronshausen, Nina L. – Educational Technology, 1975
A look at programmed tutoring, an effective method for one-to-one individualized instruction in kindergarten and first grade. (Author)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Primary Education, Programed Instruction
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
Invernizzi, Marcia; Juel, Connie – 1998
The "Book Buddies" manual and "Emergent Reader" training videos provide comprehensive and easy-to-implement guidelines for setting up and running a successful tutorial program in the early grades. Portraying the "Book Buddies" model in practice, this 44-minute videotape, entitled "Emergent Reader--Mid-Year"…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedInvernizzi, Marcia; Rosemary, Catherine; Juel, Connie; Richards, Herbert C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1997
Analyzes the first three cohorts of a one-to-one community volunteer tutorial program, an integral part of the Charlottesville (Virginia) City Schools' plan to ensure that all first- and second-grade children learn to read. Demonstrates that two sessions of one-on-one tutoring per week by a trained, supported, and supervised community volunteer…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Ennis, Robert H. – 1970
Conditional logic, as interpreted in this paper, means deductive logic characterized by "if-then" statements. This study sought to investigate the knowledge of conditional logic possessed by primary children and to test their readiness to learn such concepts. Ninety students were designated the experimental group and participated in a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Deduction, Intelligence, Logic
Walker, Barbara J.; Scherry, Ronald; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – 1999
This book provides guidance and practical information for the organization of a volunteer tutoring program. Three sections take supervisors through each step of the program, including: publicizing, obtaining funding, establishing roles of each team member, training volunteers in effective tutoring, and assessing each student's and tutor's…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
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
