A study of facilitating early literacy curriculum improvement in head start classrooms

Egitim ve Bilim

Volumn 35, Issue 158, 2010, Pages 169-183

  Yilmaz, Arif ^a   McMullen, Mary B ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood education; Early literacy; Head start; Literacy quilts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892756136     PISSN: 13001337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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