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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
Hatch, Evelyn – 1969
This document reports an investigation of the developmental changes in the use of certain syntactic structures by white, monolingual, middle class five- and seven-year-olds, and of the differences between the syntax of young children and that used in beginning reading textbooks. Approximately half of the publication presents the methods and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten


