Wilkes Final Project

Here's the best-kept secret about reading buddy programs: The teens who saunter into a room wary of reading to some restless youngster, typically end up gaining as much as their "little reading buddy." They gain self-confidence, reading skills, academic growth and a new desire to read. Why? Because they thrive on having someone look up to them, and they're able to read easy books that boost their own confidence; sometimes backing up to an easy book is just what a struggling pre-teen or teen reader needs, but won't do on his own.

A reading buddy program is a fun, personal and effective way to introduce the pleasures of reading to younger readers, especially if they are ESL (English as a Second Language) students....

In Reading Buddies, we match volunteer high school students (and middle school students in Avon) with children in grades 1-3 for a 1 hour reading time once per week.

Reading Buddies provides all materials necessary to set up a reading program for teenage volunteers to read one-on-one with primary school students. It includes concrete tips, techniques and ideas to help schools implement a tutoring program, including how to select, train and support high school volunteers.

12 practical tips to help second-language learners

This module explores ways to address the specific needs of ELL students and how to scaffold their language and literacy development. You will examine observable behaviors that indicate students' progression through stages of language acquisition.

As the 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School Bangkok, I work with core classroom teachers to successfully embed 21st century literacy skills into the classroom:

Building Literacy Skills. Through Reading Buddies. Jasmin Tiessen and Dawn Dust. TEACHING AND LEARNING

Reading buddies is a program in which two or more individuals read together. For example, older students can read with younger students, and volunteers from the community can read with students of all ages. A Reading Buddies program can help model good reading. As with any skill, reading needs to be practiced on a regular basis, and with this practice as well as modeling, students can improve their skills.

The Power of Two: A Study of the Integrated Reading Method of Peer Tutoring

This research examines the Reading Buddies program at the Grande Prairie Public Library, which took place in July and August of 2011 and 2012. The Reading Buddies program pairs lower elementary students with teen volunteers for reading practice over the summer. The aim of the study was to discover how much impact the program would have on participating children's reading levels and attitudes towards reading.