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Antonacci, Patricia A. Pierce – Reading Horizons, 1988
Identifies problems in basal readers caused by writers' use of vocabulary control and readability formulas. Provides suggestions for more effective employment of the basal reader, including suggestions on how to teach students to construct meaning from less than perfect texts. (ARH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Aloud to Others
Kettlewell, Gail B. – 1983
College students can read, but they often lack the prereading and postreading skills needed to help them think about and respond to what they read. A three-step plan can help students read and understand the text more fully. The first step entails using measures of fitness to determine: (1) the grade level of the text being considered and how it…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Goodness of Fit, Higher Education, Readability Formulas