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Peer reviewedRoe, Mary F.; Vukelich, Carol – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2001
Investigated the relationship between the goals of the AmericaReads program for K-3 students and tutors' adherence to these goals by examining artifacts from the tutoring sessions, including audiotapes, interviews with supervisors, and questionnaires completed by tutors. Found an inconsistent fidelity to tutoring expectations, which was explained…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Download full textMeier, Joanne D.; Invernizzi, Marcia – 1999
A study implemented and evaluated the Book Buddies model using National Service volunteers as tutors for high-risk first-grade students in a high-poverty urban setting. Using a design with a randomly assigned control group, results show that tutoring sessions produced clear effects. Children who received 40 Book Buddies lessons significantly…
Descriptors: Grade 1, High Risk Students, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Abouzeid, Mary P.; Fowler, Mary Claiborne – 1998
Book Buddies is a community volunteer tutorial that began in Charlottesville, Virginia in the early 1990s as a cooperative effort between the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville City Schools and the Charlottesville community. A replication of Book Buddies was designed in fall of 1997 for two elementary schools in Millville, Virginia. A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Low Income
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
Wasik, Barbara A. – 1997
The America Reads challenge makes a national commitment to the goal that every child will read independently and well by the end of the third grade. The primary means of achieving this goal is to place one million volunteers in schools to tutor children in reading. However, little is known about the effectiveness of using volunteer tutors in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Outcomes of Education
Curry, Janice; And Others – 1995
Reading Recovery is an early intervention program designed to reach first-grade students who are having the most trouble learning to read. Students meet daily with specially trained teachers for an average of 12 to 20 weeks. Reading Recovery began in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District in 1992-93. In 1993-94, Reading Recovery served 268…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pool, Kathleen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
Twenty-three first-graders at risk for learning disabilities received one-to-one tutoring from noncertified tutors for 30 minutes, 4 days a week, for one school year. Tutoring included instruction in phonological skills, explicit decoding, writing, spelling, and reading phonically controlled text. Participants significantly outperformed controls…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Decoding (Reading), Early Intervention, Grade 1
