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Literacy and illiteracy: Teaching the nonreader to survive in the modern world

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  1. School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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Preparation of this paper was funded in part by: National Institute of Education, Grant No. G-79-0139; Office of Education, Grant No. G007903258; and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

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Calfee, R. Literacy and illiteracy: Teaching the nonreader to survive in the modern world. Annals of Dyslexia 32, 71–91 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02647954

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