Beyond the independent-level text: Considering the reader?text match in first graders’ self-selections during recreational reading

Reading Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-333

  Donovan, Carol A ^a   Smolkin, Laura B ^b   Lomax, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 84950000588     PISSN: 02702711     EISSN: 15210685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027027100750061949     Document Type: Article

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