Development of reading comprehension from middle childhood to adolescence: Distributional and qualitative analyses of two genres

Written Language and Literacy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 208-240

  Kaplan, Dafna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Development; Expository texts; Narratives; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883627897     PISSN: 13876732     EISSN: 15706001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/wll.16.2.04kap     Document Type: Article

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