Informational text use in preschool classroom read-alouds

Reading Teacher

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 656-665

  Pentimonti, Jill M ^a   Zucker, Tricia A ^b   Justice, Laura M ^a   Kaderavek, Joan N ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Article; Childhood; Comprehension; Content literacy; Early childhood; Literature; Motivation; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952527037     PISSN: 00340561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RT.63.8.4     Document Type: Article

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