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2018
Volume 98, Issue 6
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Describes the origins and aims of content-area literacy and disciplinary literacy and explains how these traditions can be reconciled in integrated science-literacy instruction.

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