Developmental Relations Between Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension: A Latent Change Score Modeling Study

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-175

  Quinn, Jamie M ^a   Wagner, Richard K ^a   Petscher, Yaacov ^a   Lopez, Danielle ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84922758129     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12292     Document Type: Article

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