Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatized Naming Predicting Early Development in Reading and Spelling: Results

Bjarte Furnes1, Stefan Samuelsson

  • 1National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger, Norway.

Learning and Individual Differences
|March 2, 2011
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