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Knupfer, Peter B. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The essay discusses innovations in reading education by the schoolbook author Marcius Willson (1813-1905) through an examination of two popular series of basal readers he produced during and after the American Civil War. His School and Family Series (Harper & Brothers, 1860-) generated acrimonious debate about science education, literacy, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Basal Reading, Content Area Reading, Science Education
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Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Graded readers can help English language learners to improve their reading ability. Literary texts with simplified language often differ from expository texts for teaching EFL learners. Although reading strategies have been used to facilitate comprehension, how students use strategies to process literary texts is underexplored. The…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
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Nelson, Kristin L.; Williams, Natalie Allen; Hubler, Dan – Reading Psychology, 2022
It has been more than twenty years since the National Reading Panel Report (2000) provided recommendations for the teaching of reading based on a meta-analysis of suitable research. The report was commissioned at the end of the 1990s, just as the "whole language" reading movement that advocated for analytic phonics instruction and having…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests
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Brooks, Greg; Beard, Roger; Ampaw-Farr, Jaz – Research Papers in Education, 2021
From 2006 the British government strongly favoured synthetic phonics as the principal approach for the teaching of initial literacy in state-funded primary schools in England, and since 2010 has made it mandatory. In 2007-2013 just over 100 commercially published phonics schemes were available, and in that same period the government maintained a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Phonics, Basal Reading