Targeted reading intervention: A coaching model to help classroom teachers with struggling readers

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-114

  Vernon Feagans, Lynne ^a   Kainz, Kirsten ^a   Amendum, Steve ^a   Ginsberg, Marnie ^a   Wood, Tim ^a   Bock, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic strategies; Early reading; Literacy coaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879306880     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: 2168376X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0731948711434048     Document Type: Article

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