Presents a brief outline ofthe evolution of the basal reader and notes the predominant role it p plays in today's reading instruction. Comments on the impact reading research has had and is likely to have on the basal reading program in the future. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography

Describes a reading program that uses a combination of basal readers to teach beginning reading. (RB)

The poetry selections in eleven reading programs were analyzed and generally found to be based on sound philosophy and concerned with children's genuine responses. (JH)

Five speculations can be made about basal-series reading instruction: if it sells well, it may be bad; basal series may be based on marketing principles rather than educational principles; possession of a basal series by a school district tells llittle or nothing about the instruction in the school district that owns it; stories in basal series…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF TWO PATTERNS OF INSTRUCTION TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WAS STUDIED. THESE ASPECTS INCLUDED (1) READING ACHIEVEMENT, (2) SCHOOL-RELATED ATTITUDES, (3) SOCIOMETRIC CHOICES, (4) SCHOOL-RELATED ANXIETY, AND (5) TEACHER AWARENESS. THE 10 EXPERIMENTAL AND 10 CONTROL GROUPS WERE PRETESTED WITH THE METROPOLITAN…

The new editions of basal readers differ in significant ways from their predecessors: they are longer, more attractive, linguistically sounder, use larger vocabularies. (JH)

The six tables in this report rank the combinations of reading materials used in the classrooms of 34 elementary schools of Washington, D.C., during the 1976-77 academic year. The data are based on teacher reports about first through sixth grade students for whom there were both pretest and posttest scores. The tables indicate that a wide variety…

The criteria used to compare the effectiveness of the individualized and basal reader approaches in this study were based on vocabulary, comprehension, and attitude toward reading as well as the number, type, and difficulty of books voluntarily read during second grade. Near the end of kindergarten, children in three schools were randomly assigned…

The readability levels of ten basal readers commonly used to develop word recognition and comprehension skills in learning disabled children from grades 3 through 6 were compared with the readability levels of their accompanying workbooks. (Author/DLS)

THIS STUDY COMPARED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STANDARD BASAL READING PROGRAM WITH AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM WHICH INCORPORATED (1) A PROGRAM OF PHONETIC SKILLS, (2) WORD RECOGNITION, (3) COMPREHENSION SKILLS, AND (4) A PROGRAM OF STORY READING. TWELVE COMBINATION FIRST- AND SECOND-GRADE INDIVIDUALIZED READING CLASSES WERE PAIRED WITH 12 BASAL…

THIS STUDY EVALUATED THE EFFECTS OF A BASAL READER PROGRAM, A MODIFIED LINGUISTIC APPROACH, AND A LINGUISTIC READER PROGRAM AS MEASURED BY THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 469 CHILDREN IN 21 CLASSES AT THE END OF FIRST GRADE. ACHIEVEMENT COMPARIONS WERE ALSO MADE ON THE BASES OF (1) SEX, (2) INTELLIGENCE, AND (3) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN READING READINESS…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT-2673 WAS EVALUATED. THE STUDY REPEATED THE PROGRAM IN MANY OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSES AND EXTENDED THE METHOD TO NEW FIRST-GRADE CLASSES. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE CLASSES WAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF FIRST GRADES TAUGHT BY THE BASAL READER METHOD. THE STUDY CONTINUED…