Recreational reading: 20 years later

Reading Teacher

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 572-580

  Block, Cathy Collins ^a   Mangieri, John N ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Literacy Enhancement   (United States)

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