Repeated Reading Intervention: Outcomes and Interactions With Readers' Skills and Classroom Instruction

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 272-290

  Vadasy, Patricia F ^a   Sanders, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a Washington Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

fluency; multilevel modeling; paraeducators; repeated reading; verbal efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449124791     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.2.272     Document Type: Article

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