There's More to Children's Spelling Than the Errors They Make: Strategic and Automatic Processes for One-Syllable Words

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 492-505

  Steffler, Dorothy J ^a   Varnhagen, Connie K ^a   Friesen, Christine K ^a   Treiman, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032369661     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.90.3.492     Document Type: Article

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