The effectiveness of a group reading instruction program with poor readers in multiple grades

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-134

  Rashotte, Carol A ^a   MacPhee, Kay ^b   Torgesen, Joseph K ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Spell Read PAT   (Canada)

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EID: 0035609505     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1511068     Document Type: Article

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