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Invernizzi, Marcia; Juel, Connie – 1998
The "Book Buddies" manual and "Emergent Reader" training videos provide comprehensive and easy-to-implement guidelines for setting up and running a successful tutorial program in the early grades. Portraying the "Book Buddies" model in practice, this 44-minute videotape, entitled "Emergent Reader--Mid-Year"…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Johnston, Francine R.; Invernizzi, Marcia; Juel, Connie – 1998
Volunteer tutors can make a difference in the reading skills and the lives of young children. This comprehensive tutorial manual has been developed from the Book Buddies Program of Charlottesville, Virginia, the first large-scale model to mobilize hundreds of community volunteers in an alternative of one-on-one intervention for children at risk…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Guidelines, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedMeier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2001
Evaluated the effectiveness of Book Buddies, a volunteer tutor program designed to improve young elementary students' reading and writing skills, using diverse older adult tutors and a rigorous experimental versus control group design in a high-poverty, urban setting. Overall, students participating in Book Buddies were significantly stronger in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
