Developing low-income preschoolers' social studies and science vocabulary knowledge through content-focused shared book reading

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-52

  Gonzalez, Jorge E ^a   Pollard Durodola, Sharolyn ^a   Simmons, Deborah C ^a   Taylor, Aaron B ^a   Davis, Matthew J ^a   Kim, Minjun ^a   Simmons, Leslie ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Preschool; Shared book reading; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551539482     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2010.487927     Document Type: Article

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