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Eckhoff, Barbara L. – 1986
A study investigated how children's writing reflects the syntactic complexity, style, and format of their basal readers. Subjects were 116 students drawn from 10 second, third, and fourth grade classrooms in two different schools located near Boston, Massachusetts. A matched group design was used, and students using a form of the "Ginn"…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
