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Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction (Grades 4 and Up)

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20 easy lessons with color transparencies, high-interest passages, and practice pages -- everything you need to help your students learn how to read all kinds of nonfiction.

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Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 428.4 — Language English & Old English languages Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics) Reading
LCC: LB1050.2 .B6 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education Teaching (Principles and practice)
BISAC: EDU EDUCATION General
EDU EDUCATION Teaching General

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Languages: English
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Published: 2003
Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 428.4
LCC: LB1050.2 .B6

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