Reading Rescue: An effective tutoring intervention model for language-minority students who are struggling readers in first grade

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 414-448

  Ehri, Linnea C ^a   Dreyer, Lois G ^a,b   Flugman, Bert ^a   Gross, Alan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beginning reading instruction; Language minority students; Paraprofessionals; Reading acquisition; Struggling readers; Tutoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250799630     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831207302175     Document Type: Article

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