Children's reading comprehension and narrative recall in sung and spoken story contexts

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-349

  Kouri, Theresa ^a,c   Telander, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b Waconia Community School District   (United States)

^c CAC 233   (United States)

Author keywords

Literacy training; Music and reading; Reading comprehension; Speech and language delay; Sung story books

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749304665     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659008096296     Document Type: Article

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