Spelling and reading development: The effect of teaching children multiple levels of representation in their orthography

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-94

  Devonshire, Victoria ^a   Morris, Paul ^a   Fluck, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Etymology; Morphology; Phonology; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872446928     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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