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2018
Volume 114, Issue 6
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This account of practitioner research provides insight into a teacher and a literacy coach’s use of dramabased pedagogies to bring joy to a required curriculum.

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