Providing preschool foundations for later reading comprehension: The importance of and ideas for targeting inferencing in storybook-sharing interventions

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 627-643

  Van Kleeck, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 50049133198     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20314     Document Type: Article

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