What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-based ProgramsAnother in the series of Longman's brief practical texts on reading, What Really Matters for Struggling Readers helps teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based components. Nationally-recognized scholar and author Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles and shows teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers. |
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