Early development in written language: Children's emergent knowledge of genre-specific characteristics

Reading and Writing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-25

  Zecker, Liliana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent writing; Genre; Grade one; Kindergarten

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008254042     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00423922     Document Type: Article

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