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Direct linkBurns, Matthew K.; Senesac, Barbara J.; Silberglitt, Benjamin – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
There is a recent interest in volunteer tutoring programs and research has suggested effectiveness in improving reading skills. Previous research found that the Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) volunteer tutoring program increased reading fluency and comprehension over a 5-month interval (Burns, Senesac, & Symington, 2004). The current…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, Reading Skills
Stevens, Robert L.; Starkey, Melanie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
The authors--a second grade classroom teacher and a university professor of education--decided to collaborate. Melanie wanted to find out if she could help her students increase their reading and writing comprehension by presenting a sequence of events in an activity (for example, the steps in building a house) and then have the students write the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Social Studies, Reading Improvement, Writing Improvement
Download full textAnderson, Clarence A.; And Others – 1970
This study reports the impact of the Flint Community Junior College (Michigan) reading improvement program on 150 participating students in terms of general group and racial sub-group (black and white) performance. After the groups were compared according to race and ability for data-collecting purposes, pre- and post-test measurements were taken…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Institutional Research, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
