Developing an educational E-book for fostering kindergarten children's emergent literacy

Computers in the Schools

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 125-143

  Shamir, Adina ^a   Korat, Ofra ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

E books; Emergent literacy; Kindergarteners; Paired learning

Indexed keywords

E-BOOKS; EMERGENT LITERACIES; INDIVIDUAL LEARNING; KINDERGARTENERS; PAIRED LEARNING; PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS; POST INTERVENTIONS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 34748848673     PISSN: 07380569     EISSN: 15287033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J025v24n01_09     Document Type: Article

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