Text complexity and oral reading prosody in young readers

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 388-404

  Benjamin, Rebekah George ^a   Schwanenflugel, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Article; Assessment; Childhood; Comprehension; Early childhood; Fluency; Theoretical

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957932067     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.45.4.2     Document Type: Article

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