Shared reading/ Peer Tutoring:
Peer tutoring links high achieving students with lower achieving students or those with comparable achievement for structured learning. It promotes academic gains as well as social enhancement.
Shared reading within a class or between classes is co – ordinated by a staff member. It is a ten week intervention. Pre and post assessments are conducted to monitor success. Reading Standardised test scores are used to determine who the tutor and tutee is.
The first two weeks involves sessions where teacher and co- ordinator model how to peer tutor before commencing sessions with children.
The session is made up of ten minutes reading time, where first the tutor models and reads to the tutee, then the tutee reads and the tutor offers guidance on how to problem solve, they also monitor fluency and punctuation. Next they work on sight words and dictionary work. Children make flashcards of new vocabulary highlighting chunks or little know words in words. Games are invented and played with these flashcards.
A Mixture of fiction and non – fiction texts are read. The intervention runs four days a week and on the fourth day revision of new vocabulary takes place.
When a child is absent, another child or teacher can step in. Data from pre and post teaching is recorded and monitored by SET.
