Learning to read and write genre-specific text: Roles of authentic experience and explicit teaching

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-45

  Purcell Gates, Victoria ^a   Duke, Nell K ^b   Martineau, Joseph A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c K 12 Assessment Programs   (United States)

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EID: 33846265495     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.42.1.1     Document Type: Article

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