Are Word-Reading Processes the Same or Different in Adult Literacy Students and Third-Fifth Graders Matched for Reading Level?

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 262-275

  Greenberg, Daphne ^a   Ehri, Linnea C ^a   Perin, Dolores ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 0031490596     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.89.2.262     Document Type: Article

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