A multicase study in the middle school: Complexities among young adolescent readers

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 172-192

  Ivey, Gay ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007109956     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.34.2.3     Document Type: Article

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