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Download full textSchmidt, William H.; And Others – 1983
To explore the issue of educational content in basal readers, a study analyzed 34 basal reading textbooks, representing eight of the most commonly used series in American elementary education. Educational content was defined and categorized along three dimensions: subject matter, function, and ethos. The subject matter component covered theories,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Elementary Education
Durkin, Dolores – 1989
A study examined 1989 kindergarten (K) manuals of basal reading materials. The question of central concern was whether and how the manuals facilitate a teacher's efforts to match instruction with children's ability. A closely related concern was whether and how the manuals describe ways to keep some children occupied with useful activities so as…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Peer reviewedMiller, John W. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Shows that a wide variety of textbook characteristics play a role in influencing teachers' selection process, and that some of these interact with teacher characteristics. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedReutzel, D. Ray; Daines, Delva – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Investigates the degree to which instruction in teachers' manuals relates to the stories in basal readers. Finds that the instruction in teachers' manuals relates to children's stories less than 33% of the time. (SKC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Losing Our Language: How Multiculturalism Undermines Our Children's Ability To Read, Write & Reason.
Stotsky, Sandra – 1999
This book argues that it is the incorporation of a multicultural agenda into basal readers, the primary tool for teaching reading in elementary schools, that has stunted American children's ability to read. The book shows how basal readers have been systematically "dumbed down" in an effort to raise minority students'"self…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Literature
Logan, John W.; Garcia, Jesus – 1982
Noting that major publishers have begun to depict a more balanced portrayal of ethnic story characters and content in their basal reading series, a study was conducted to investigate the extent to which stories depicting the three largest ethnic groups in the United States were contained in nine of the major and current basal reading series…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basal Reading, Blacks, Characterization
Balajthy, Ernest – 1987
Judge Thomas Hull's October 1986 decision in the "Mozert et al. versus Hawkins County Public Schools" provoked concern from a number of educators who felt that the plaintiffs, several Fundamentalist parents, who were favored in the decision, were attempting to force their religious principles on non-Fundamentalists. Judge Hull's…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Basal Reading, Bias, Censorship
