Abstract of

Helping Struggling Readers: Linking Small-Group Intervention With Cross-Age Tutoring

Barbara M. Taylor

Barbara E. Hanson

Karen Justice-Swanson

Susan M. Watts

What needs to be done to sustain the positive effects of early intervention programs for young children identified as at risk of reading failure? This article describes an approach that combined small-group instruction and cross-age tutoring among children aged 7 to 10. Results indicated that these second- through fourth-grade struggling readers all made gains in reading achievement.

Abstract from Taylor, B.M., Hanson, B.E., Justice-Swanson, K., & Watts, S.M. (1997, November). Helping Struggling Readers: Linking Small-Group Intervention With Cross-Age Tutoring. The Reading Teacher, 51(3), 196–209. doi: 10.1598/RT.51.3.4