Teacher Outreach to Families Across the Transition to School: An Examination of Teachers' Practices and their Unique Contributions to Children's Early Academic Outcomes

Early Childhood Education Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 391-399

  Hindman, Annemarie H ^a   Skibbe, Lori E ^b   Morrison, Frederick J ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Literacy; Mathematics; Teacher outreach; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881023855     PISSN: 10823301     EISSN: 15731707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10643-010-0410-4     Document Type: Article

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