This article presents summaries of research on 13 core understandings about learning to read, from "Building a Knowledge Base in Reading" (Jane Braunger and Jan Patricia Lewis). In the article, each core understanding is followed by activity ideas and strategies useful for tutors--these activities were created with one-on-one tutoring in…

What are some of the things we can do to create meaningful field experiences prior to student teaching? An attempt to cater to career-changers with day jobs led to the creation of a small tutor seminar group. The students tutored secondary mathematics students, met monthly as a group, and communicated with the instructor weekly through e-mail.…

Responding to the America Reads Challenge and the increasing emphasis on using volunteer tutors to help all children learn to read, the activities and suggestions in this easy-to-use book are from the journal "The Reading Teacher" and are classroom tested. It provides instructional tips for teachers and tutors who are collaboratively…

This report describes the 1999-2000 work of the Omaha Public School Tutoring Program, one recipient of a Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) grant to support the Department of Education's America Reads Challenge Initiative. McREL was charged with issuing and monitoring four subcontracts with tutoring partnerships to provide…

This 12 minute videotape presents the stories of young children and adolescents who have experienced difficulty in learning to read. The three children and the adolescent featured in the video tell in their own words of the pain they felt by not being able to learn to read and the effect on their self esteem. The video consists of these children's…

Success for All is the most extensively researched of all comprehensive reform models for Title I elementary schools. It incorporates scientifically based principles of reading, cooperative learning, professional development, tutoring, and family support. This document lists the particular schools in Florida that made outstanding gains on the…

A 2-year individual instructional program succeeded in giving a 7 1/2-year-old dyslexic boy both good reading skills and a love of reading. (DB)

Co-ordinated teacher in-service is missing in Canada - and so is help for the probationary teacher. Here's how a professional tutor could help. (Editor)

Discusses the conduct of an introductory biophysics course with a personalized instruction by using tutors selected from the students themselves. Included are three tables of text contents, a sample of a terminal questionnaire, and a list of biophysics references. (CC)

Discusses a personalized training program that can be taught to and used by elementary, secondary, and college student tutors. (TO)

A look at the use of peer tutoring at the kindergarten level as a remediation technique. (HB)

Article describes cross age teaching programs in five different schools and gives reasons for their success. (GB)

This study demonstrated that previously nonproductive students could be maintained in academic tasks for 65, 30 to 50 minute sessions with the aid of extrinsic reinforcement that averaged only $.07 daily per student. (Author)

The essential value of this program is not only the attainment of increased reading skills for both tutors and tutees, but the positive social and emotional benefits which it offers. (Author)