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Douglas Scott Samson – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The GREAT (Gifted Readers Enhance Academic Talent) Reading Project is a quasi-experimental, between-group study that evaluated a 13-week before-school student tutoring/mentoring reading and literacy program. The study examined the effects of the intervention on reading achievement for each group involved, including high-ability gifted fifth grade…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cross Age Teaching, Tutoring, Reading Instruction
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Labbo, Linda D.; Teale, William H. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Studies low-achieving fifth-grade readers to evaluate the feasibility of a cross-age reading program and to clarify implementation details for a large-scale project. Finds that quantitative results and qualitative data suggest that cross-age reading programs are a promising way to help poor readers to improve their reading. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cross Age Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Grade 5