Preschool teachers' literal and inferential questions and children's responses during whole-class shared reading

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-83

  Zucker, Tricia A ^a   Justice, Laura M ^b   Piasta, Shayne B ^b   Kaderavek, Joan N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferential language; Information texts; Preschool; Shared reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450242901     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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