Bridging Home and School Literacy Practices: Empowering Families of Recent Immigrant Children

Theory into Practice

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 304-311

  Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 84862194567     PISSN: 00405841     EISSN: 15430421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00405840903192904     Document Type: Article

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