Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills: A practical guide for teachers

ISBN-13: 9781138843295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str.

Keith Topping; David Duran; Hilde Van Keer

Opis

Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills is a very practical guide, offering a straightforward framework and easy-to-implement strategies to help teachers help pupils progress in reading. A succinct introduction, it shows how schools can make positive use of differences between pupils and turn them into effective learning opportunities.

Outlining the evidence base supporting peer tutoring approaches, it explores the components of the reading process and explains how peer tutoring in reading can be used with any method of teaching reading. Core topics covered include:

• Planning and implementing peer tutoring
• Getting your school on board
• How to structure effective interaction
• Training peer tutors and tutees
• Paired Reading - cross-ability approaces

• One Book for Two - fostering fluency, reading comprehension, and motivation

• Reading in Pairs - cross and same-year tutoring
• Supporting struggling readers
• Involving families in peer tutoring
• Evaluation and feedback.

Illustrated throughout with practical examples from diverse schools across Europe, Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills is an essential introduction offering easy-to-use guidelines that will support teachers in primary and secondary schools as they enhance pupil motivation and improve reading standards."

Spis treści

Section A INTRODUCTION  1. Reading  2. Peer Tutoring  3. Peer Tutoring in Reading  Section B EVIDENCE-BASED GOOD PRACTICES  4. Paired Reading: What Is It?  5. Paired Reading: Does It Work?  6. One Book for Two: What Is It?  7. One Book for Two: Does It Work?  8. Reading in Pairs: What Is It?  9. Reading in Pairs: Does It Work?  Section C ORGANISING AND IMPLEMENTING PEER TUTORING  10. Planning: Context, Objectives, Materials, Recruitment, Selection and Contact  11. Operating: Training, Monitoring, Feedback and Evaluation  12. The Role of the Teacher in Peer Tutoring  13. Evaluation of Peer Tutoring  14. Sustaining and Embedding Peer Tutoring