Can minimally trained college student volunteers help young at-risk children to read better?

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-46

  Fitzgerald, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0012596132     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/rrq.36.1.2     Document Type: Article

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