Beyond exposure: The uses of informational texts in a second grade classroom

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-362

  Maloch, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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