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Helping Children Achieve Literacy Proficiency: A Case Study
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Leonardo Herrera; Richard G. Lambert – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2025
A single embedded case study was conducted to examine the benefits students experience from participating in the Augustine Literacy Project -- Charlotte (ALP) Tutoring Program, specifically regarding the positive outcomes in students' reading proficiency development. A survey was administered to 135 tutors, followed by person-to-person…
Descriptors: Literacy, Tutoring, Reading Skills, Skill Development
Preparing Beginning Reading Teachers: An Experimental Comparison of Initial Early Literacy Field Experiences
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Lake, Vickie E.; Greulich, Luana; Folsom, Jessica S.; Guidry, Lisa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This randomized-control trial examined the learning of preservice teachers taking an initial Early Literacy course in an early childhood education program and of the kindergarten or first grade students they tutored in their field experience. Preservice teachers were randomly assigned to one of two tutoring programs: Book Buddies and Tutor…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Learning Strategies
Learning from the "Little Guys": What Do Middle and High School Preservice Teachers Learn from Tutoring Elementary Students?
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Massey, Dixie D.; Lewis, Jan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
As teacher educators, we continue to focus on tutoring experiences as ways to help tutors connect coursework to practice. This study presents a preservice tutoring program designed to provide a field-based experience where the tutors would be able to (a) learn about literacy instruction, (b) use a multitude of assessment data rather than…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Tutors, Data Analysis, Literacy
Increasing Literacy among Kindergartners through Cross-Age Training.
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Henriques, Marlene E. – Young Children, 1997
Presents the use of cross-age tutoring to enhance literacy in kindergarten students. Covers benefits of the approach in comparison to other methods. Describes tutor and tutee selection, frequency and length of tutoring, tutor training, tutoring session format, evaluation, and problems encountered. Discusses results, including increased emergent…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
When a Criminal Justice Major Becomes an America Reads Literacy Tutor: A Case Study.
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Cobb, Jeanne B.; Allen, Diane D. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Describes the experiences and the effective instructional practices of one college student who over a three-year period was a literacy tutor in a university America Reads program. Describes his two distinctive tutoring roles. Examines social interactions, activities he used to scaffold instruction for at-risk emergent readers, and the impact of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Book Buddies: Guidelines for Volunteer Tutors of Emergent and Early Readers.
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