You can't play if you don't know the rules: Interpretive conventions and the teaching of literature to students in lower‐track classes

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-377

  Hamel, Frederick L ^a,b   Smith, Michael W ^c  

^a Bremerton High School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85008770428     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1057356980140402     Document Type: Article

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