Exploring Head Start Teachers' Early Language and Literacy Knowledge: Lessons from the ExCELL Professional Development Intervention

NHSA Dialog

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 293-315

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Wasik, Barbara A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head Start; literacy; poverty; professional development; teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859347463     PISSN: 15240754     EISSN: 19309325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15240754.2011.617528     Document Type: Article

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