Effective Tutoring in America Reads: A Reply to Wasik.

Topping, Keith

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ERIC Number: EJ571645

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Effective Tutoring in America Reads: A Reply to Wasik.

Topping, Keith

Reading Teacher, v52 n1 p42-50 Sep 1998

Responds to an article in the April 1998 issue of this journal. Shares evidence about the effectiveness of peer tutoring. Discusses literacy tutoring of K-3 emergent readers by volunteers. Explains why tutoring is not teaching, and offers a model for successful tutoring practices. (SR)

Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Models, Peer Teaching, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Tutoring

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: See CS 755 281 for the article being critiqued.