Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-227

  Hammer, Carol Scheffner ^a   Nimmo, Diana ^a   Cohen, Risa ^a   Draheim, Heather Clemons ^a   Johnson, Amy Achenbach ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; book reading; Latino; literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845372361     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798405058683     Document Type: Article

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