From familiar worlds to possible worlds: Using narrative theory to support struggling readers engagements with texts

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 62-70

  Zigo, Diane ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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