Cross-Age Tutoring: A Literacy Improvement Approach for Struggling Adolescent Readers.

Jacobson, Julie; Thrope, Lynne; Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane; Frey, Nancy; Flood, James

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ERIC Number: EJ622820

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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Cross-Age Tutoring: A Literacy Improvement Approach for Struggling Adolescent Readers.

Jacobson, Julie; Thrope, Lynne; Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane; Frey, Nancy; Flood, James

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v44 n6 p528-36 Mar 2001

Describes the implementation and evaluation of a cross-age tutoring program in which 21 struggling seventh-grade readers tutored third-graders, based on strategies and preparation they learned in their own Strategic Reading class. Notes that reading skills and enjoyment of these seventh-grade students were significantly expanded. Discusses factors related to this success. (SR)

Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 3, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Remedial Reading, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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