Developing early literacy skills: Things we know we know and things we know we don't know

Educational Researcher

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 340-346

  Lonigan, Christopher J ^a   Shanahan, Timothy ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Language processes; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954751627     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X10369832     Document Type: Article

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