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Peer reviewedPellegrene, Tom, Jr.; Dickerson, Frances E. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Describes a program using student tutors who give other students help in reading skills. (HOD)
Descriptors: Clubs, Cross Age Teaching, Reading Difficulty, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedGlowacki, Joan – Journal of Reading, 1990
Describes the effect on remedial reading students of engaging in reading activities with trainable mentally handicapped children. Reports that the students requested additional opportunities to share reading activities with the mentally handicapped students. Notes that students developed a Big Book that described their experiences during the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cross Age Teaching, Junior High Schools, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMavrogenes, Nancy A.; Galen, Nancy D. – Journal of Reading, 1979
Reviews research which indicates that cross-age tutoring is successful and presents suggestions for implementing cross-age tutoring projects. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedRekrut, Martha D. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Offers an overview of research findings on peer and cross-age tutoring, including what elements of reading are amenable to tutoring, the effects of the age and ability of tutors, gender pairing, and tutor training. (SR)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedRenfro, Marilyn J. – Journal of Reading, 1975
Describes an elective class in which high school students work in a primary grade classroom helping students with learning problems. (RB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Educational Programs, Elective Courses, High School Students
Peer reviewedBean, Rita; Luke, Catherine – Journal of Reading, 1972
Describes how high school students tutor elementary school children in a reading program (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, High School Students, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHoward, Kevin – Journal of Reading, 1977
Explains a tutorial program, in an Australian school, in which older students receive English grammar and language credit for their work in tutoring younger remedial readers. (MB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedLane, Patrick; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Cross Age Teaching
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
Peer reviewedWheeler, Patricia M. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Explains how one teacher developed a cross-age tutoring program that allowed her high school students to help primary grade problem readers. Argues that high school students with reading problems make good tutors for troubled beginning readers because they are sympathetic and inventive. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
