Cross-age peer mentoring is a somewhat unique and different approach to mentoring than the better-known adult-with-youth mentoring model. In cross-age mentoring programs (CAMPs) the mentor is an older youth, typically high school-aged, who is paired or matched with an elementary or middle school-aged child. Meetings almost always take place in the…

The Pause, Prompt, and Praise method of tutor training has been used successfully to train older children and parents to provide remedial reading instruction. Tips for putting together a cross-age tutoring program are given. (MT)

Describes a cross-age tutoring program in which older students in remedial reading classes teach reading skills to younger students using a "test, train, tutor, and translate" paradigm. (FL)

Listed separately by grade level (K-6) are activities for promoting National Library Week. Included are sewing projects, puppetry, murals, wood projects, bumper stickers, and pairing older with younger students. (KC)

This article describes sequences of skills for elementary students listed on easy-to-read play cards. (PB)

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)

After discussing J.R.R. Tolkien's "Father Christmas Letters," fifth- and sixth-graders undertook a class project to answer second-graders' letters to Santa Claus. (SJL)

This paper focuses on children helping children through peer and cross-age tutoring with special emphasis for programs serving the student remedial or special education setting. The historical roots of peer and cross-age tutoring are discussed. Explanations of the nature of the tutorial experience are presented, along with a discussion of the…

Advocates the use of peer and cross-age teaching in the elementary grades. Play as a method for peer teaching is emphasized. (CM)

When older and younger students are paired, motivation, cooperation, friendship, and self-esteem flourish, and extra learning takes place. The article describes how to match students, presents five cross-grade projects, discusses project evaluation, and offers the option of cross-grade tutors. (SM)

Four high school seniors at the Nebraska School for the Deaf were effectively used as storytellers and story readers with primary grade students at the school. The younger children became more involved with literature and the older students learned to select appropriate stories, prepare for storytelling, and select the appropriate communication…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: How does a school provide the computer learning experiences for students given the paucity of available funding for hardware, software, and staffing? Here is what one school, Emma W. Shuey in Rosemead, did after exploratory research on computers by a committee of teachers and administrators. The…

In the project described, high school students became familiarized with a material-centered inquiry approach to teaching science, and introduced science activities to children in the lower grades' open-classrooms. The project has encouraged meaningful interaction between the secondary and elementary schools and prompted changes in teaching styles.…

Reviews research which indicates that cross-age tutoring is successful and presents suggestions for implementing cross-age tutoring projects. (MKM)

Project DIG (Discovering Industries in the Ground) was a pilot program in Portage County, Ohio, involving gifted/talented high school students who gathered information from guest speakers, participated in field trips and an onsite archaeological excavation, wrote research papers, and shared experiences with gifted elementary students and the…