Stopping the silence: Hearing parents' voices in an urban first-grade family literacy program

Reading Teacher

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 670-680

  Nistler, Robert J ^a,b   Maiers, Angela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b MOH 217 ^*  (United States)

^c DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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