Relationships between sixth-graders' reading comprehension and two different measures of print exposure

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-96

  Spear Swerling, Louise ^a   Brucker, Pamela O ^a   Alfano, Michael P ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Author recognition tests; Print exposure; Reading; Reading comprehension; Reading habits

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949133985     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-008-9152-8     Document Type: Article

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