Originally published in 1994. The book gives teachers of 9 to 14 year olds an accessible account of how peer-tutoring can be organised to elevate reading performance of low-achieving readers - shared reading with partner; paired reading using 'reading together' and 'reading alone' techniques; and more rigorous 'pause, prompt and praise' techniques.

Preface 1. introduction 2. Why Peer-tutoring? 3. Setting up a Peer-tutoring Scheme for Shared Reading or Relaxed Reading 4. Paired Reading 5. Pause, Prompt and Praise: Its Origins and Development 6. Pause, Prompt and Praise: The Procedures 7. Training Tutors and Tutees 8. The Underlying Research, Part One – Shared Reading and Paired Reading 9. The Underlying Research, Part Two – Pause, Prompt and Praise 10. The Underlying Research, Part Three – Comparison and Other Studies 11. Evaluating Your Project 12. Sources of Further Information about Peer-tutoring