Syntactically cued text facilitates oral reading fluency in developing readers

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 423-445

  Levasseur, Valerie Marciarille ^a,b,d   Macaruso, Paul ^a,c   Palumbo, Laura Conway ^a   Shankweiler, Donald ^a,b  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Reference and Collection Development   (United States)

^d Department of Physics and Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 33749323054     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0142716406060346     Document Type: Article

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