Children's genre knowledge: An examination of K-5 students' performance on multiple tasks providing differing levels of scaffolding

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 428-465

  Donovan, Carol A ^a   Smolkin, Laura B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 0038897558     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.37.4.5     Document Type: Article

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