Research Article
Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content- Area Literacy
TIMOTHY SHANAHAN and CYNTHIA SHANAHAN
Harvard Educational Review April 2008, 78 (1) 40-59; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.78.1.v62444321p602101
TIMOTHY SHANAHAN
1
University of Illinois at Chicago
CYNTHIA SHANAHAN
1
University of Illinois at Chicago

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