Less is more: Preparing students for state writing assessments

Reading Teacher

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 816-826

  Kern, Diane ^a   Andre, Wendy ^b   Schilke, Rebecca ^b   Barton, James ^a   McGuire, Margaret Conn ^b  

^a RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Rhode Island College ^*

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