Phonological skills and reading comprehension

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 613-631

  Engen, Liv ^a   Høien, Torleiv ^a  

^a Dyslexia Research Foundation   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decoding; Phonemic awareness; Phonological skills; Reading acquisition; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642629619     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1020958105218     Document Type: Article

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