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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
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
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
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
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
Potter, Jana; Blankenship, Judy; Carlsmith, Laura – 1999
Considering 61 reading tutoring programs established in response to the "America Reads Challenge," this publication encourages all Americans to collaborate with classroom teachers and parents so that every child can read well and independently by the third grade. It discusses ways to build effective partnerships among the community, and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parent Participation, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Wolverton, E. Dollie – Compact, 1973
Discusses new parenthood education courses that combine classroom instruction in child development with practical experience in working with young children in early childhood settings such as Head Start programs, day care facilities, kindergartens, and primary grades. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Life Education, Parenthood Education, Parents
Gold, Judith; Potter, Lance – 1999
Developed for the America Reads initiative, this paper presents the LEARNS (Linking Education and America Reads through National Service) Literacy Assessment Profile (LLAP), a student assessment system that is designed to improve providers' ability to deliver high quality literacy programs to students, assess students' literacy understanding, set…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Literacy
Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Elementary English, 1974
Descriptors: Books, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed.; Woo, Deborah Gee, Ed. – 2001
As a result of the America Reads Challenge Act of 1997, numerous tutoring programs have been established to help ensure that every child reads independently by the end of third grade. This book describes exemplary America Reads programs across the country as well as other effective early literacy interventions, including Reading Recovery, the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Abouzeid, Mary P.; Fowler, Mary Claiborne – 1998
Book Buddies is a community volunteer tutorial that began in Charlottesville, Virginia in the early 1990s as a cooperative effort between the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville City Schools and the Charlottesville community. A replication of Book Buddies was designed in fall of 1997 for two elementary schools in Millville, Virginia. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Low Income
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Jill – Reading Research Quarterly, 2001
Finds that at-risk first and second graders made statistically significant gains in instructional reading level that was attributable to tutoring by minimally trained America Reads Challenge college students. Finds that the greatest impact was in affecting children's ability to read words, and that most of their growth occurred during the second…
Descriptors: College Students, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
