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Peer reviewedGarman, Dorothy – Reading Teacher, 1978
Reports research which shows that a wide gap exists between basal reader language and children's level of oral language development. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGourley, Judith W. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Basal readers are supposed to be easy for children to read, but sometimes their language is so unnatural that it's more confusing than helpful. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
PDF pending restorationHart, N.W.M. – 1976
Children's mastery of reading skills would be facilitated if reading programs capitalized on children's already-developed oral language competence. Barriers against "reading for meaning" exist when the cues used for predicting in oral language are not present in the written language which confronts children; yet anaylses of four reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Rietz, Sandra A. – 1976
This study examined the hypothesis of a linear, bipolar continuum, with the principles of oral language at one end and those of written language at the other. Six sources of language were identified and arranged along the continuum, to reflect their underlying governing principles: spontaneous oral language of children, children's folk songs,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations
