Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle

Matthew H. Schneps; Jenny M. Thomson; Gerhard Sonnert; Marc Pomplun; Chen Chen; Amanda Heffner-Wong

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071161

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Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle

Matthew H. Schneps ,

* E-mail: mschneps@cfa.harvard.edu

Affiliation Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jenny M. Thomson,

Affiliation Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Gerhard Sonnert,

Affiliation Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Marc Pomplun,

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Chen Chen,

Affiliations Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Amanda Heffner-Wong

Affiliation Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle

Matthew H. Schneps,
Jenny M. Thomson,
Gerhard Sonnert,
Marc Pomplun,
Chen Chen,
Amanda Heffner-Wong

Published: August 5, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071161

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