The incremental variance of morphological knowledge to reading comprehension in grades 3-10 beyond prior reading comprehension, spelling, and text reading efficiency

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 792-798

  Foorman, Barbara R ^a   Petscher, Yaacov ^a   Bishop, M Denise ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological awareness; Morphological knowledge; Reading comprehension; Spelling; Text reading efficiency; Word structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868301789     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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