Development of reading and spelling finnish from preschool to grade 1 and grade 2

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-30

  Leppänen, Ulla ^a,c   Niemi, Pekka ^b   Aunola, Kaisa ^a   Nurmi, Jari Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (Finland)

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EID: 33646746623     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532799xssr1001_2     Document Type: Article

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