The Contributions of Phonological Awareness and Letter-Name Knowledge to Letter-Sound Acquisition-A Cross-Classified Multilevel Model Approach

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 313-326

  Kim, Young Suk ^a   Petscher, Yaacov ^a   Foorman, Barbara R ^a   Zhou, Chengfu ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy; Kindergarten; Letter name knowledge; Letter sound knowledge; Phonological awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955037807     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018449     Document Type: Article

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