Low-income Latino mothers' booksharing styles and children's emergent literacy development

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-324

  Caspe, Margaret ^a  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Book reading; Culture; Emergent literacy; Family involvement; Latinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349765907     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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