Reading until the cows come home: Figurative language and reading comprehension

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 370-379

  Palmer, Barbara C ^a   Brooks, Mary Alice ^b  

^a Magnolla School ^*  (United States)

^b Magnolla School   (United States)

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