Phonemic Awareness Contributes to Text Reading Fluency: Evidence From Eye MovementsFootnote

This research was supported by an Early Career Investigator award to the first author from Central Michigan University. We thank Courtney Chamberlain, Hannah Faleer, Madison Kloss, Kristin Willis, and Michelle Young for helping with data collection, Debra Poole for providing the participant data base, Jiye Shen for programming support, and Melissa Farrall for commenting on a previous version of this article.

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