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Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills

Keith Topping | David Duran | Hilde Van Keer
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Cross-age Peer
Cross-age Peer Tutoring
Cross-age Tutoring
differentiated instruction
educational intervention methods
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evidence-based literacy
Explicit Reading Strategies Instruction
Family Tutoring
formative assessment strategies
group work
Improve Reading Skills
improving reading
inclusive classroom techniques
inclusive practice
keith topping
literacy
literacy improvement for struggling readers
Oral Fluent Reading
Peer Tutor Programmes
Peer Tutoring
Peer Tutoring Activities
Peer Tutoring Approach
Peer Tutoring Pairs
Peer Tutoring Project
Peer Tutoring Sessions
PR Programme
PR Technique
Reading
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Activities
Reading Comprehension Curriculum
Reading Comprehension Instruction
Reading Pairs
Reading Strategies
Reciprocal Peer Tutoring
teacher professional development

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138843288
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.
About David Duran | Hilde Van Keer | Keith Topping

Keith Topping is Professor of Educational and Social Research in the School of Education at the University of Dundee, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Peer Learning.

David Duran is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Sciences of Education at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Hilde Van Keer is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.

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