Insights into fluency instruction: Short- and long-term effects of two reading programs

Literacy Research and Instruction

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 318-336

  Schwanenflugel, Paula J ^a   Kuhn, Melanie R ^b   Morris, Robin D ^c   Morrow, Lesley Mandel ^b   Meisinger, Elizabeth B ^d   Woo, Deborah Gee ^e   Quirk, Matthew ^f   Sevcik, Rose ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^e NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruction; Oral reading; Reading comprehension; Reading fluency; Self concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449632594     PISSN: 19388071     EISSN: 19388063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388070802422415     Document Type: Article

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