Literature questions children want to discuss: What teachers and students learned in a second-grade classroom

Elementary School Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-152

  Commeyras, Michelle ^a   Sumner, Georgiana ^a  

^a Alps Road Elementary School ^*

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EID: 0347033130     PISSN: 00135984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/461919     Document Type: Article

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