"I thought about it all night": Readers theatre for reading fluency and motivation

Reading Teacher

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 294-297

  Worthy, Jo ^b   Prater, Kathryn ^a  

^a Apt 2436 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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