The construction of literary understanding by first and second graders in oral response to picture storybook read-alouds

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 252-275

  Sipe, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.35.2.4     Document Type: Article

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