Web-based tutoring of the structure strategy with or without elaborated feedback or choice for fifth- and seventh-grade readers

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-92

  Meyer, Bonnie J F ^a   Wijekumar, Kay ^b   Middlemiss, Wendy ^c   Higley, Kelli ^a   Lei, Pui Wa ^a   Meier, Catherine ^a   Spielvogel, James ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Penn State Beaver ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 77950889787     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.45.1.4     Document Type: Article

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