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Cross-Age Tutoring--Using the 4 T's.
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Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Horizons, 1980
Describes a cross-age tutoring program in which older students in remedial reading classes teach reading skills to younger students using a "test, train, tutor, and translate" paradigm. (FL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Alternative Uses of Networking.
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Camperell, Kay; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Suggests that one way reading teachers can begin to familiarize themselves with content area texts is to create network diagrams or maps of the information. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Strategies, Notetaking, Reading Comprehension
A Comparison of Procedures for Training Efficient Word Processing.
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Bengston, John K.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology, 1983
Reports on a study in which eight high school students and one elementary school student received practice in making both speeded and tachistoscopic identifications of high and low frequency words. Compares performance of each group to the other and to a third control group where stimuli were presented at a self-paced rate with no experimental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
Using Grade Level vs. Out-of-Level Reading Tests with Remedial Students.
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Smith, Lawrence L.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Concludes that for fourth and fifth grade students in compensatory reading programs, using test forms from a lower grade level and converting the scores might give a more reliable estimate of achievement. (FL)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reading Programs
Tutoring Experience for Disabled Readers
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Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Improvement, 1973
Describes the use of disabled readers at the secondary level as tutors for elementary students. (TO)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Improving Comprehension through the Use of Networking.
Camperell, Kay; Smith, Lawrence L. – 1982
Networking or mapping strategies can be used to help secondary school students in remedial reading programs identify and understand ideas and relationships among ideas encountered in their content area textbooks. Essentially, networking and mapping are note taking procedures that require students to represent ideas from texts in some sort of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Cooperation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Enrichment Grant of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Project. Final Report. Comprehensive Employment Training Program.
Smith, Lawrence L.; Bengston, John – 1978
This report documents the results of a special reading program offered to low income high school students involved in a youth incentive entitlement work/study project in Alachua County, Florida. The first section of the report discusses the need for literacy training through a reading enrichment program for entitlement students and the inadequacy…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, High School Students, Instructional Design, Literacy