Predicting poor, average, and superior spellers in grades 1 to 6 from phonological, orthographic, and morphological, spelling, or reading composites

Written Language and Literacy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-98

  Garcia, Noelia P ^a   Abbott, Robert D ^a   Berninger, Virginia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological awareness; Orthographic awareness; Phonological awareness; Pseudoword spelling; Spelling development; Word specific spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954236326     PISSN: 13876732     EISSN: 15706001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/wll.13.1.03gar     Document Type: Article

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