Considering genre, content, and visual features in the selection of trade books for science instruction

Reading Teacher

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 502-520

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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