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Peer reviewedBarbetta, Patricia M.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1991
This study investigated the effectiveness of a cross-age (25 high school tutors and 6 elementary aged tutees) 6-week tutoring program. Findings indicated that all tutees acquired new sight vocabulary words after tutoring, were able to read the words in sentences, and maintained the learning four months later. (DB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedLindsey, Jimmy D.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes two word-recognition activities and a cross-age tutoring program that have proven successful in developing poor readers' sight vocabulary. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Kinesthetic Methods, Language Experience Approach, Reading Skills
Lawson, V. K.; And Others – 1987
This textbook is the first of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Simmons, Judy D. – 1987
This textbook is the second of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Elmore, Fred – 1987
This textbook is the third of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Coville, Bruce – 1987
This textbook is the fourth of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Coville, Bruce – 1987
This textbook is the sixth of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Lee, Artis – 1987
This textbook is the fifth of six textbooks in a sequential reading series that makes use of the principles of modeling and assisted reading. The series can be used with small groups of three to five learners, with individual learners, or in a peer situation. The approach is that of modified language experience using sight words and context clues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Context Clues
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1987
This guide is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors who are teaching adults and teenagers to read. The nature and extent of the adult illiteracy problem and the process of learning to read are discussed in the first chapter. The characteristics that are desirable in basic reading tutors and those that are encountered in adult learners…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
