Assessing children's views about themselves as writers using the Writer Self-Perception Scale

Reading Teacher

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 286-296

  Bottomley, Diane M ^a   Henk, William A ^a   Melnick, Steven A ^a  

^a W 351 T Olmsted Building ^*

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