Building reading fluency in a learning-disabled middle school reader

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 331-341

  Morris, Darrell ^a   Gaffney, Meghan ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cabarrus County Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Article; Assessment; Childhood; Decoding; Early adolescence; Fluency; Motivation; Profdev; Special needs; Strategies; Struggling; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951620829     PISSN: 10813004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/JAAL.54.5.3     Document Type: Article

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