Models for using nonfiction in the primary grades

Reading Teacher

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 426-434

  Palmer, Rosemary G ^a   Stewart, Roger A ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 14844321972     PISSN: 00340561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RT.58.5.2     Document Type: Review

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