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Smith, F. 1994. Understanding Reading. Erlbaum.

Flurkey, A. and Xu, J. (Eds) 2003. On the Revolution of Reading: The Selected Writings of Kenneth S. Goodman. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

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