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Horton, Ashlee Hirsh – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This content analysis study examined 99 basal reading narratives from three publishers: Harcourt, SRA-McGraw Hill, and Scott Foresman. The stories were classified according to the ethnicity of the major characters. The observed frequencies were compared to expected frequencies to indicate over representation, adequate representation or under…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, African American Students, African American Literature
Grandison, Cecelia – 1981
Using the "Checklist for Evaluating Sexism in Reading," an analysis was undertaken of the Ginn 360 series and the Ginn 720 series of basal readers for sex stereotypes and related language usage. The main characters and illustrations in approximately ten stories at each reading level were analyzed. Of the 116 stories examined, 49 featured…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Characterization, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Schmitt, Bette A. – 1980
Selections from the last three basal reading series produced by the Houghton Mifflin Company were examined to determine what improvements were made. One of the fundamental changes occurring in the 1971 revision ("Readers") was the replacement of grade designations with numerical levels that provided a better match between student and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Change, Comparative Analysis
Froese, Victor – 1971
The validity of the Dale-Chall Readability ratings for sixth-grade science textbooks when compared to an independent criterion of language difficulty expressed in cloze units was examined. The Canadian Lorge-Thorndike IQ Test and the Canadian Test of Basic Skills, Vocabulary and Comprehension subtests, were administered to 366 sixth graders. Mean…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Correlation
Chesnov, Wendy Beth – 1996
A study examined the hypothesis that illustrations found in first-grade basal texts do not always relate to context. Six texts were analyzed to determine the percentage of illustration miscues appearing in each story. The basal readers used were: "Story Clouds," Scott Foresman Reading: An American Tradition (1987); "Red Rock,"…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Grade 1
Hoffman, James V.; And Others – 1993
A study examined the first grade materials in five new basal programs submitted for the 1993 Texas state adoption. (The programs were those of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Houghton Mifflin; Scott Foresman; Macmillan/McGraw-Hill; and Silver Burdett Ginn). These series are compared with program materials currently in use in the state. The analysis…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Primary Education
Popp, Helen Mitchell – 1976
The two reading programs discussed in this paper, "Reading Unlimited" (RU) published by Scott Foresman and "New Primary Grades Reading Systems" (RS) by the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center, provide maximal contrasts in materials and teaching strategies. The instructional strategies in RU are…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports, Primary Education
Hllgendorff, Patricia H. – 1980
The revised Spache Readability Formula and the Fry Readability Formula were applied to 20 selected reading materials designed for adolescents reading at second grade level. Three samples from each text were examined. The results using the Spache formula corresponded to the publisher's stated readability levels, with no significant variability…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Readability
Zymroz, June – 1981
Testing the assumption that textbooks were getting harder while students' abilities have been declining over the years, a study was conducted to determine the readability levels of six college reading textbooks across three editions to see if they were equal or the same in readability. The study also sought to determine whether these texts were…
Descriptors: College English, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1967
READING PROGRAMS IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES IN MANITOBA, CANADA, WERE STUDIED OVER A 4-YEAR PERIOD TO DETERMINE WHAT TYPES OF PROGRAMS WERE IN EFFECT AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF READING. INCLUDED IN THE REPORT ARE (1) A SURVEY OF READING IN MANITOBA FROM 1946-1966, (2) A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education
Beck, Isabel L.; Block, Karen K. – 1976
The instruction provided by two beginning reading programs (the Ginn 720 and the Palo Alto 1973 reading programs) are analyzed and compared in this paper on the basis of such factors as phoneme-grapheme correspondence and phonics instruction, sight word learning, and the development of reading comprehension. The comparison focuses primarily on the…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension