1st Edition

Improving Reading A Teacher's Guide to Peer-tutoring

By Frank Merrett Copyright 1994
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1994. Without sufficient skill in reading, secondary education is virtually impossible. Yet many pupils reach this point with reading skills far below those which would enable them to benefit from the texts put before them. This book gives teachers of 9 to 14 year olds a readily accessible and simple account of how peer-tutoring can be organised to elevate the reading... Read more

Preface 1. introduction 2. Why Peer-tutoring? 3. Setting up a Peer-tutoring Scheme for Shared Reading or Relaxed Reading 4. Paired Reading 5. Pause, Prompt and Praise: Its Origins and Development 6. Pause, Prompt and Praise: The Procedures 7. Training Tutors and Tutees 8. The Underlying Research, Part One – Shared Reading and Paired Reading 9. The Underlying Research, Part Two – Pause, Prompt and Praise 10. The Underlying Research, Part Three – Comparison and Other Studies 11. Evaluating Your Project 12. Sources of Further Information about Peer-tutoring

Biography

Frank Merrett