Cross-age tutoring: A literacy improvement approach for struggling adolescent readers

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 528-536

  Jacobson, Julie ^a   Thrope, Lynne ^b   Fisher, Douglas ^c   Lapp, Diane ^c   Frey, Nancy ^c   Flood, James ^c  

^a Point Loma University   (United States)

^b Reading Room ^*  (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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