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Download full textMenton, Shailaja; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – 1999
A study considered the tasks for beginning readers posed by currently available beginning reading programs. A set of guidelines for evaluating beginning reading texts was identified. According to the model used, such texts should be "engaging, accessible, and generalizable." These guidelines were used to examine the literature components…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedWilson, LaVisa Cam – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports that workbooks and worksheets of two first grade basal reader series included more extra words in the written directional statements of their worksheets than in their workbooks. Concludes that this practice may inhibit pupils' achievement of a lesson's objectives when such materials are used for independent work. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis
Spiker, Thecla M. – 1998
A study examined the historical development of the Cathedral Basic Readers (a.k.a. the Dick and Jane readers), a special edition used to teach reading in Catholic schools. Three questions served as a guiding framework: (1) what factors led to the creation, development, and discontinuance of this Reader series? (2) what were the differences between…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Catholic Schools, Catholics
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
Martinez, Miriam G. – 1977
The sentences in two first grade basal readers were categorized using Joan Tough's language function classification system to determine whether lower level basal readers allowed children to use their knowledge of language functions in reading. The range of language functions and language uses in the basals was compared to those that Tough found in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children
Peer reviewedMeyer, Linda A.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1987
Reports on a content analysis of four popular first-grade basal series, examining decoding and comprehension instruction in teachers' manuals, student texts, workbooks, and supplementary activity packages. Reports that none of the programs present a balanced approach to teaching decoding and comprehension with very comprehensible stories. (MM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Decoding (Reading)
Flippo, Rona F. – 1984
Working on the theory that intonation miscues caused by confusion over punctuation and other phrase boundaries will make the apprehension of text more difficult than necessary for young developing readers, a study reviewed the research and literature relevant to the effects of location of punctuation, phrasing, and line breaks in text and on the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Intonation
