Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills
A practical guide for teachers
1st Edition
Published on 26. October 2015
Book
Hardback
154 pages
978-1-138-84328-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a rich resource for those interested in peer tutoring and a clear window into a specific type of peer work for those committed to deepening their understanding of the power of cooperation for learning. One thing that makes this book paticularly powerful is that each author's work has been detailed, sustained, and extensive. A second is that the three authors speak about peer tutoring from the point of view of projects from three different cultural, social, and linguistic contexts." - Lynda Baloche, International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education"The book offers useful strategies for all teachers who want to improve the reading skills of their students through the practice of peer tutoring, a cooperative learning method to manage the diversity of levels in a way that all the students can teach and learn from each other [...] A very interesting and practical book which is written in clear language and well-structured that offers many guidelines and resources on how to effectively implement peer tutoring to improve reading skills." - Mariona Corcelles Seuba, Revista de Educacion "Un trabajo completo y riguroso que reune el conocimiento y la experiencia adquirida hasta el momento en materia de tutoria entre iguales, y que aporta propuestas factibles y reales de utilizacion en los contextos educativos actuales abordando todos los aspectos y detalles a tomar en consideracion para lograr acercar la tutoria entre iguales a las aulas." - Marta Flores Coll (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Estudios Sobre Educacion
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate
Illustrations
7 s/w Zeichnungen, 10 s/w Tabellen
10 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-84328-8 (9781138843288)
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Keith Topping | David Duran | Hilde Van Keer
Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills
A practical guide for teachers
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Keith Topping | David Duran | Hilde Van Keer
Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills
A practical guide for teachers
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10/2015
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Keith Topping | David Duran | Hilde Van Keer
Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills
A practical guide for teachers
E-Book
10/2015
Routledge
€36.99
Available for download
Persons
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 Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Hilde Van Keer is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.
David Duran is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Sciences of Education at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Hilde Van Keer is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.
Content
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