Reading with vocabulary intervention: Evaluation of an instruction for children with poor response to reading intervention

Journal of Research in Reading

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 319-336

  Duff, Fiona J ^a   Fieldsend, Elizabeth ^a   Bowyer Crane, Claudine ^a   Hulme, Charles ^a   Smith, Glynnis ^b   Gibbs, Simon ^b   Snowling, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b North Yorkshire Children and Young People's Service   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 49649119023     PISSN: 01410423     EISSN: 14679817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2008.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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