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The Language of Beginning Reading Texts. Final Report.

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Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987

To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…

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