Identifying and teaching text structures in content area classrooms

Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 59-75

  Simonsen, Stephen ^a  

^a College of the Desert ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612243     Document Type: Chapter

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