Developing early literacy skills: A meta-analysis of alphabet learning and instruction

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-38

  Piasta, Shayne B ^a   Wagner, Richard K ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.45.1.2     Document Type: Article

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