A longitudinal study of the development of reading prosody as a dimension of oral reading fluency in early elementary school children

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 336-354

  Miller, Justin ^a   Schwanenflugel, Paula J ^b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 54449083821     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.43.4.2     Document Type: Article

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