Reading representations of themselves: Urban youth use culture and African American textual features to develop literary understandings

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 372-392

  Brooks, Wanda ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Faculty Development and Research   (United States)

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EID: 33746396618     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.41.3.4     Document Type: Review

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