Children's development and control of written story and informational genres: Insights from one elementary school

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 394-447

  Donovan, Carol A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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