Children's oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 627-644

  Reese, Elaine ^a   Suggate, Sebastian ^a   Long, Jennifer ^b   Schaughency, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Te Pou   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Decoding; Oral language; Oral narrative; Reading comprehension; Reading fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953705690     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9175-9     Document Type: Article

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