Reading fluency: More than automaticity? more than a concern for the primary grades?

Literacy Research and Instruction

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 350-361

  Rasinski, Timothy ^a   Rikli, Andrew ^b   Johnston, Susan ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Westside Community Schools   (United States)

^c Educational Service Unit #3   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent readers; Assessment; Automaticity; Middle grade readers; Prosody; Reading fluency; Struggling readers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449651980     PISSN: 19388071     EISSN: 19388063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388070802468715     Document Type: Article

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