Evaluation of a rime-based reading program with Shuswap and Heiltsuk First Nations prereaders

Reading and Writing

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 229-264

  Walton, Partrick D ^a   Bowden, Michael E ^b   Kurtz, Shelly L ^b   Angus, Mary ^c  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Kamloops/Thompson S D 73 ^*  (Canada)

^c Kamloops/Thompson S D 73   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Letter; Phoneme; Reading; Rhyming; Rime analogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644248741     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011125315377     Document Type: Article

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