Head Start teachers' beliefs about language and literacy instruction

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-492

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Wasik, Barbara A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Head Start; Literacy; Teacher belief

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149131567     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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