Legislative Action Focus Reports

Focus on Volunteer Reading Tutors

by David R. Denton

August 2000

This report looks at research on the effectiveness of volunteer tutors in helping students who are having trouble learning to read. It concludes that volunteer tutors can be quite helpful to students who are slightly behind in reading but that students who have severe problems require the assistance of highly skilled professional teachers. Under any circumstances, volunteer tutors require appropriate training and close supervision to be effective.

Keywords: reading, teachers, tutors, volunteers, research

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