"I want to read": How culturally relevant texts increase student engagement in reading

Multicultural Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 18-19

  Feger, Mary Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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