This document presents helpful suggestions (tips) for tutors. Introductory material indicates the purposes and commitment involved in tutoring. Suggestions are categorized according to general, first session, later sessions, tutoring reading, and tutoring arithmetic. Several approaches to aid a tutor-study partner relationship are included. (MJM)

This article outlines a cross-age elementary level geography tutorial project and suggests some experiences suitable for tutorial activity. (DE)

Part of a section, "4 Reading Techniques that Work.

This article describes a reading comprehension program adopted at J. E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School in Salt Lake City, Utah. The program is called SHARE: Students Helping Achieve Reading Excellence, and involves seventh and eighth grade students teaching first and second graders reading comprehension strategies learned in middle school…

Describes a cross age tutoring program which improves the reading skills of all students involved and makes the learning process more humanistic. (RB)

Findings are reported on a three year cross-age tutoring program in which undergraduate dental hygiene students and college students from other disciplines trained upper elementary students to tutor younger students in the techniques of dental hygiene. Data includes pre-post scores on the Oral Hygiene Index of plaque for both experimental and…

Objectives of a four-phase study were (1) the discovery of relevant tutoring techniques when upper-grade elementary students tutor first-grade children who are having difficulty with sentence equations; (2) the empirical validation of the specified tutoring techniques identified; (3) the development and validation of an instrument for assessing a…

Article describes cross age teaching programs in five different schools and gives reasons for their success. (GB)

Describes two successful basic new'' approaches to tutoring -- one stressing the development of an open, nonstructured relationship between students, and the other emphasizing the programed or structured tutoring that concentrates on reading and prescribes detailed steps to follow. (Author)

This study was designed to provide experimental data on the efficacy of tutoring and to provide specific outlines for the implementation of a tutoring project. The results indicated that fifth- and sixth-grade children facilitated measureable though limited reading development of younger children. (Author)

The author, a sixth grade teacher, explains how she was able to use cartoons as an incentive for story writing. (AS)