This review focuses on intervention studies that tested whether parent–child reading
activities would enhance children's reading acquisition. The combined results for the 16 …

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from
vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition …

Peer learning allows a positive use of differences between pupils, turning them into learning
opportunities. Yet education professionals often remain unfamiliar with the principles …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to
learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves. It encompasses peer tutoring …

After working with parents as a mainstream and special class teacher, educational
psychologist, researcher and teacher educator, as well as being a parent of two young …

One of the undeniable trends in the domain of literacy is the rising interest in adolescent
readers. Evidence of this trend is apparent not only in the number of empirical and …

Parental involvement in the teaching of reading and writing has often lagged behind
practice, though schools in many countries now recognise the importance of parental …

Although each principle is explained on its own, all twelve principles are best understood as
an organised whole with one supporting the others. As a whole, these principles are meant …

Meta-analyses on the effect of peer tutoring have rarely examined the effect of peer tutoring
on tutors' academic gain. Some previous analyses are dated and have methodological or …