Decodable Texts for Beginning Reading Instruction: The Year 2000 Basals

Journal of Literacy Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 269-298

  Hoffman, James V ^a   Sailors, Misty ^a   Patterson, Elizabeth U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 84990341365     PISSN: 1086296X     EISSN: 15548430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15548430jlr3403_2     Document Type: Article

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