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Van Keer, Hilde; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
The present study explores the impact of an experimental reading intervention focusing on explicit reading strategy instruction and cross-age peer tutoring on third and sixth graders' reading strategy awareness, cognitive and metacognitive reading strategy use, and reading comprehension achievement. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Standardized Tests
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Van Keer, Hilde; Verhaeghe, Jean Pierre – Journal of Experimental Education, 2005
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of explicit reading comprehension strategies instruction, followed by practice in teacher-led whole-class activities (STRAT), reciprocal same-age (STRAT + SA) peer-tutoring activities, or cross-age peer-tutoring activities (STRAT + CA) on 2nd and 5th graders' reading comprehension and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction