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2018
Volume 103, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

This qualitative case study examines how young children’s playful languaging shapes literacy acquisition during a ninety-minute literacy block in a kindergarten classroom.

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