Describes a six-week experimental cross-age tutoring program involving seventh and eighth graders deficient in reading skills as tutors of kindergarten through sixth grade students also exhibiting deficiencies in reading skills. (TO)

Describes a study to determine the effect on student achievement of a cross-age tutoring program which was substituted for a traditional reading program. (JM)

Examines four case study pairings of college student volunteer tutors with fourth-grade at-risk children. Notes that the efforts of these tutors and their students all resulted in significant literacy gains. Describes in detail the social interactions of these dyads and identifies common themes, characteristics, and categories which emerged from…