Literacy and Text Reading in Middle and High School Social Studies and English Language Arts Classrooms
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Literacy and Text Reading in Middle and High School Social Studies and English Language Arts Classrooms Elizabeth Swanson, Jeanne Wanzek, Lisa McCulley, Stephanie Stillman-Spisak, Sharon Vaughn, Deborah Simmons, Melissa Fogarty & Angela Hairrell a The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA b Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA c Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA d Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, USA Published online: 26 Jan 2015.
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