Visual and orthographic information in learning to read and the influence of phonics instruction

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 859-884

  Thompson, G Brian ^a   Johnston, Rhona S ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstract letter units; Parsing of digraphs; Phonics instruction; Phonological mediation; Reading development; Upper case letters

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348958441     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9050-5     Document Type: Article

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