Relationships of Three Components of Reading Fluency to Reading Comprehension

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 310-321

  Klauda, Susan Lutz ^a   Guthrie, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

prosody; reading comprehension; reading fluency; syntactic processing; word recognition speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449109269     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.2.310     Document Type: Article

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