Promoting gains in reading fluency: A comparison of three approaches

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-230

  LeVasseur, Valerie Marciarille ^a,b   MacAruso, Paul ^a,b   Shankweiler, Donald ^a,c  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Department of Physics and Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cued text; Reading fluency; Repeated readings; Rereading; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749129654     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9070-1     Document Type: Article

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