Preschool children's narratives and performance on the peabody individualized achievement test - Revised: Evidence of a relation between early narrative and later mathematical ability

First Language

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-183

  O'Neill, Daniela K ^a   Pearce, Michelle J ^a   Pick, Jennifer L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Frog story; Longitudinal study; MLU; Narrative cognition; Picturebook reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846125787     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723704043529     Document Type: Article

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