Telling stories and making books: Evidence for an intervention to help parents in migrant head start families support their children's language and literacy

Early Education and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-371

  Boyce, Lisa K ^a   Innocenti, Mark S ^a   Roggman, Lori A ^a   Norman, Vonda K Jump ^a   Ortiz, Eduardo ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953418010     PISSN: 10409289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10409281003631142     Document Type: Article

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