Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Reading Skills

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.

• 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

"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 Educación