Taking advantage of read-alouds to help children make sense of decontextualized language

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 153-169

  McKeown, Margaret G ^a   Beck, Isabel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607355     Document Type: Chapter

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