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Download full textNiedermeyer, Fred C.; Ellis, Patricia – 1969
Fifth- and sixth-grade students were trained by kindergarten teachers to tutor kindergarten pupils in reading by using highly structured practice exercises, selected by teachers for each pupil as part of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's First-Year Communication Skills Program. To measure the effectiveness of tutoring on the progress of pupils…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten
Deering, Albert R.
This manual for tutors participating in the Homework Helper Program (which employs high school students or graduates as tutors for elementary school students) opens with generalizations of the characteristics of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students intended as a base of understanding for tutors. The next section focuses on the varying…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Peer reviewedEllis, DiAnn Waskul; Preston, Fannie Wiley – Reading Teacher, 1984
Describes how fifth grade students can help first graders develop their language skills and also teach other fifth graders how to tutor. Provides a list of picture books for use in the program. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Peer reviewedGinsburg-Block, Marika; Fantuzzo, John – School Psychology Quarterly, 1997
Investigated the relationship between peer-tutoring interactions of dyads and experience in a reciprocal peer tutoring (RPT) program in mathematics. Analysis of 40 at-risk fourth- and fifth-grade students indicates that RPT participants displayed significantly higher rates of mathematics achievement, social acceptance, and other favorable measures…
Descriptors: Children, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 4, Grade 5
