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Download full textButts, Priscilla; Sanders, June – 1972
This manual presents information on how to conduct a tutorial reading program that features a plan for motivating students. The program is intended for upper elementary and junior high school students who read approximately on a second- or third-grade level. The basis for this program is an instructional design, the Staats "Motivated Learning"…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Motivation Techniques, Reading
Marcus, Marie – Reading Impr, 1969
Presents the tutorial method of remedial reading instruction used in the Language Arts Center at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. College students majoring in elementary education worked with 8 to 16-year-olds to establish reading skills and more positive attitudes. A personal approach seemed to produce better results than the normal…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Problem Solving, Psychological Characteristics
Peer reviewedWepner, Shelley B. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1987
Computers can be used to teach reading to reading-disabled students in three modes: the tutor mode, tool mode, and tutee mode. The computer's ability to improve motivation and to provide versatility is examined. A vignette is presented of computer use in the instructional program of a reading-disabled nine-year-old. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkLaczynski, Adela R. – Language Arts, 2006
The author of this article is a young elementary teacher at Rosado Elementary in Richmond, California, on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay. She writes this article as a moving memoir describing her experiences as a tutor in literacy programs developed by low-income schools. In order for their students to remember their lessons, they have…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Literacy, Student Motivation, Economically Disadvantaged
Johnston, Joyce; Palmatier, Robert A. – 1976
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Hogan, Robert T.; Horsfall, Robert B. – 1970
This study is an evaluation of a summer tutorial program designed to encourage inner city secondary school students to complete high school in a manner such that their chances of entering college would be maximized. The subjects in the tutorial group were forty 16 year-old boys. The control group comprised 28 high school boys closely resembling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, College Admission, Control Groups
