Features of Children's Storytelling on Entry to School

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 349-354

  Macdonald, Shelley ^a   Mcnaughton, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Language skills; Reading tests; Story telling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346454660     PISSN: 00288276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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