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Download full textBoise City Independent School District, ID. – 1975
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 750 first-through third-grade students from 14 elementary schools. The program is designed to teach letter names, consonant and vowel sounds, sight words, and decoding skills to students who have deficiencies in basic reading skills. The basic elements of the model include…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Powell, Barbara S. – 1975
In this document, the author: (1) describes a two-year study of cross-age teaching; (2) identifies six stages that children go through in learning to teach; (3) applies those stages to case studies of two tutors--one failure and one success; and (4) discusses the implications of the stages for the role of the supervisor in helping children to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedStrom, Robert D. – Elementary School Journal, 1978
Advocates the use of peer and cross-age teaching in the elementary grades. Play as a method for peer teaching is emphasized. (CM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedGroepler, Andrea H.; Matzko, Ruth E. – Journal of School Health, 1977
An experiment is described in educational program design involving the use of seventh-grade students in developing and implementing a K-6 cross-grade tutorial/enrichment program in health education. (MJB)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Health Education
Peer reviewedRaschke, Donna; And Others – Teacher Educator, 1988
A study of 70 kindergarten and 20 sixth-grade students determined the affective changes which occur when older children tutor younger ones. The research indicates that cross-age tutoring promotes positive attitudes toward upperclassmen among lowerclassmen. Methodolgy is described. (JL)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
Lane, Karen Sue – 1997
A study examined whether cross-grade peer tutoring increased student performance on weekly spelling tests. Subjects, 7 sixth graders and 19 second graders attending Coal City Elementary School in Raleigh County, West Virginia, spent 10 minutes each day for 9 weeks working on spelling. The experimental group used cross-grade peer tutoring and the…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 6
Craker, George; Richardson, Jim – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Reports the results of a study that supports the use of cross-grade tutors reading along with poor readers to improve their reading skills. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedSchneider, Rebecca Barone; Barone, Diane – Childhood Education, 1997
Describes the preparation, implementation, and results of a classroom cross-age tutoring project, which involved third and fourth graders reading books to younger students. Discusses evolution of project: students' lesson plans became more student-centered and complex over time, tutors assumed responsibility for younger children, and their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Literacy
Haluska, Rena; Gillen, Dorothy – Learning, 1995
When older and younger students are paired, motivation, cooperation, friendship, and self-esteem flourish, and extra learning takes place. The article describes how to match students, presents five cross-grade projects, discusses project evaluation, and offers the option of cross-grade tutors. (SM)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedBar-Eli, Nurith; Bar-Eli, Michael; Tenebaum, Gershon; Forlin, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 1998
Reports on three case studies of seventh-grade students teaching mathematics to third-grade students, in place of their classroom teacher, applying the Learning Through Teaching method. Discusses performance results for both tutors and tutees and restrictions on the scope of results. Concludes that tutoring benefits tutors more than tutees. (DSK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBlock, Cathy Collins; Dellamura, Robyn J. – Reading Teacher, 2001
Describes how book buddies activities enable both tutors and tutees to reach new heights in their literacy abilities. Describes how teachers can significantly increase these benefits by incorporating record-keeping and writing activities. Offers examples of book buddy journals, reflection forms, reading records, strategies checklists, question…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching
Young, Allison J.; Boyle, Robert A. – 1994
A study investigated whether grade-level status affects learning through cross-age activities. Data were collected through unstructured and open-ended audiotaped interviews with 11 pairs of students in a combined third- and fifth-grade class. Coding and analysis of data revealed seven themes related to students' perceptions of their interactions…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Rosemead Elementary School District, CA. – 1984
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: How does a school provide the computer learning experiences for students given the paucity of available funding for hardware, software, and staffing? Here is what one school, Emma W. Shuey in Rosemead, did after exploratory research on computers by a committee of teachers and administrators. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs
Osguthorpe, Russell T.; And Others – 1985
Two studies investigated effects of programs in which handicapped students tutored regular class students. In study 1, 39 fourth to sixth grade learning and behaviorally handicapped students tutored regular class first graders in reading. In study 2, 17 intellectually handicapped students tutored regular class peers in sign language. Comparing…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Osguthorpe, Russell T. – 1985
Two experiments compared cross-age and peer tutoring interventions within special education settings. In experiment 1, 47 elementary age learning and/or behaviorally disordered (LD/BD) students acted as tutors of younger LD and BD students. In experiment 2, 31 same-age LD and BD students alternated tutor and tutee roles. In both experiments,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
