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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
Download full textChemidlin, Karyn M. – 1999
The purpose of this study was to determine if cross age peer tutoring of fifth grade and kindergarten students would have an effect on reading achievement. For eight weeks one group of fifth graders and kindergartners paired together four times a week, while the other group was not cross age paired. Both groups were given a Reading Interview…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedJuel, Connie – Reading Research Quarterly, 1996
Explores factors accounting for the success of poor readers (college students) tutoring other poor readers (elementary school students). Finds that using texts that gradually and repetitively introduced high-frequency vocabulary and engaging children in direct letter-sound instruction were important. Finds that scaffolding of reading and writing…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedTaylor, Barbara M.; Hanson, Barbara E.; Justice-Swanson, Karen; Watts, Susan M. – Reading Teacher, 1997
Describes a reading intervention program that combined a modified enrichment program with cross-age tutoring and that resulted in significant gains in reading for both students and tutors. (SR)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Intervention, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Dashner, Carol – 1995
A study examined the effectiveness of a project to increase reading readiness skills. The targeted population consisted of kindergarten students in a growing middle class community located in northern Illinois. The problems of lack of reading readiness were documented through teacher observation and district assessment tools. Analysis of probable…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Nagan, Carole – 1994
A study examined the effectiveness of an immersion-in-literacy program in a first-grade classroom. Six of the 22 students (all six were boys) indicated on a reading attitude survey that they did not like to read books. The classroom teacher set up her classroom so that it fostered literacy development. Some of the experiences and activities she…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Classroom Environment, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1
Krug, Marline; Fordonski, Patricia – 1995
A study investigated the effectiveness of a program for improving the recreational reading habits of elementary students through the use of cross-age tutoring in critical reading strategies. The targeted population consisted of a kindergarten and a fourth-grade class in the growing upper-middle-class community of Geneva, Illinois, located…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Critical Reading, Cross Age Teaching
