Silver bullets, babies, and bath water: Literature response groups in a balanced literacy program

Reading Teacher

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 114-124

  Spiegel, Dixie Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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