Increasing elementary-aged students' reading fluency with small-group interventions: A comparison of repeated reading, listening passage preview, and listening only strategies

Journal of Behavioral Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 211-228

  Begeny, John C ^a   Krouse, Hailey E ^a   Ross, Sarah G ^a   Mitchell, R Courtney ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reading fluency; Reading intervention; Small group

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350641829     PISSN: 10530819     EISSN: 15733513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10864-009-9090-9     Document Type: Article

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