Spelling development: Fine-tuning strategy-use and capitalising on the connections between words

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-371

  Devonshire, Victoria ^a   Fluck, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Etymology; Literacy; Morphology; Orthography; Phonology; Spelling development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952885001     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.02.025     Document Type: Article

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