Enhanced Alphabet Knowledge Instruction: Exploring a Change of Frequency, Focus, and Distributed Cycles of Review

Reading Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 448-464

  Jones, Cindy D ^a   Reutzel, D Ray ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84865258724     PISSN: 02702711     EISSN: 15210685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2010.545260     Document Type: Review

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