Home grown for reading: Parental contributions to young children's emergent literacy and word recognition

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-95

  Evans, Mary Ann ^a   Shaw, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy; Home literacy environment; Shared book reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949122593     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0708-5591.49.2.89     Document Type: Review

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