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Direct linkWeber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure
Peer reviewedGourley, Judith W. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Basal readers are supposed to be easy for children to read, but sometimes their language is so unnatural that it's more confusing than helpful. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedGlazer, Susan Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1974
Reviews research using sentence length as a factor in predicting readability and discusses the possibility of sentence complexity as a more accurate variable. (TO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Readability
