Helping parents to read expository literature to their children: Promoting main-idea and detail understanding

Reading Research and Instruction

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 341-360

  Warren, Lynn ^a   Fitzgerald, Jill ^b  

^a Harriett County Schools   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 85009557063     PISSN: 08860246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19388079709558248     Document Type: Article

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