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Direct linkEditorial Projects in Education, 2024
This Spotlight will help readers investigate one state's plan to improve literacy with daily summer reading instruction; review how teachers can better support struggling older readers; gain expert insights into strategies for boosting reading proficiency; evaluate the merits of audiobooks for improving reading engagement; explore how short bursts…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Summer Programs
Peer reviewedReed, Deborah K. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2019
Interventions for individuals with or at risk for reading disability (RD) need not occur only during the typical school day. Educators and researchers have been actively seeking opportunities to extend literacy learning through home-based, summer, and other tutoring programs. Nevertheless, alternative settings can pose greater difficulty with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students, Reading Difficulties
Download full textMcGaughey, Trisha A.; Wade, Julie H.; Zhao, Huafang – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
This brief describes an evaluation of academic intervention supports available to high school students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) during the 2012-2013 school year. A website review identified information about academic supports available to students or parents within each high school's web pages. A survey of school staff gathered…
Descriptors: Counties, Academic Support Services, At Risk Students, High School Students
DEY, CHARLES F.; JACKSON, DAVIS – 1965
A SUMMER PROGRAM OFFERED INTENSIVE ACADEMIC PREPARATION TO DISADVANTAGED BOYS WHO HAD RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. THE PROGRAM'S STRESS ON ENGLISH, READING, AND MATHEMATICS WAS MAINTAINED BY CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT BETWEEN STAFF AND STUDENTS, SMALL CLASS SECTIONS, AND INDIVIDUAL TUTORING. THE TUTORS LIVED WITH THE STUDENTS…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, English Curriculum
MITMAN, BETTY A.; TUTTLE, MARY E. – 1965
AN 8-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM TO PROVIDE A TRANSITIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR 69 GIFTED CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED GIRLS (GRADES 8 TO 11) WHO WERE GIVEN CONDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOLS CONSISTED OF INTENSIVE TUTORING IN ENGLISH, READING, AND MATHEMATICS. A PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STAFF WAS ASSISTED BY UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENT TUTORS, WHO ACTED…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Disadvantaged, English Curriculum, Enrichment Activities
Rush, Leslie S. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
This article provides case studies of three middle school students--two female and one male--who participated in an individual summer tutoring program designed to improve students' reading comprehension and to encourage students to think critically about texts. With the researcher, students read and discussed Internet texts and wrote responses. An…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Reading Comprehension, Case Studies, Literacy Education
Canadian Teachers' Federation, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1991
Reporting on small-scale classroom research projects dealing with diverse aspects of literacy, this collection of 13 research reports from Canada emphasizes common themes. These themes are: the need for parental participation in literacy and numeracy development, the beneficial effects of tutoring, the need for a wide and varied classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy
