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Direct linkCenter for Data-Driven Reform in Education (NJ3), 2009
What reading programs have been proven to help students in grades 2-5 to succeed? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on three types of programs designed to improve the reading achievement of students in grades 2-5: (1) Reading Curricula (Curr), such as "Open Court," "Harcourt," "Reading Street" and other standard and alternative…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Reading Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Reading Programs
Download full textLane, 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
Ramunda, Jeanne M. – 1994
A study was designed to examine the effectiveness of repeated reading in fluency and comprehension. A cross-age reading program was used to give students a purpose for rereading material. The children in a second-grade classroom in a private school in suburban New Jersey were randomly assigned to two sample groups. The experimental group read to a…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Peer Teaching
Conrad, Eva E. – 1976
Open classroom systems frequently use peer tutoring techniques as a means of individualizing instruction. This study investigated the effects of three variables on tutor and tutee performance: (1) the achievement level of the tutor; (2) brief tutor training in reinforcement and corrective feedback procedures; and (3) tutor expectancy about tutee…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1, Grade 2, High Achievement
Breedlove, Donnie L. – 1975
This practicum was developed (1) to improve, supervise, and disseminate a model cross-age tutoring program, and (2) to determine if a tutorial program would increase the sight vocabulary of 100 second grade students in the Dallas Independent School District. A secondary purpose was to determine if such a program would improve the reading grades,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedVan Keer, Hilde; Verhaeghe, Jean Pierre – Journal of Experimental Education, 2005
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of explicit reading comprehension strategies instruction, followed by practice in teacher-led whole-class activities (STRAT), reciprocal same-age (STRAT + SA) peer-tutoring activities, or cross-age peer-tutoring activities (STRAT + CA) on 2nd and 5th graders' reading comprehension and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
