3.6 minutes per day: The scarcity of informational texts in first grade

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 202-224

  Duke, Nell K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039699571     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.35.2.1     Document Type: Article

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