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Download full textTennessee Department of Education, 2016
"Setting the Foundation: A Report on Elementary Grades Reading in Tennessee" (ED572952) provides insight into the challenges associated with early grades reading in Tennessee, along with a set of recommendations for building more readers across the state. This appendix provides detailed information about reading programs in Tennessee…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Textbooks
Direct linkPilonieta, Paola – Reading Psychology, 2010
Research supports using research-based comprehension strategies; however, comprehension strategy instruction is not highly visible in basal reading programs or classroom instruction, resulting in many students who struggle with comprehension. A content analysis examined which research-based comprehension strategies were presented in five…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Basal Reading, Reading Programs, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedBacharach, Nancy – Reading Psychology, 1988
Investigates whether analogical reasoning is included in four major basal reading series and, if so, the nature of such instruction. Finds that three of the four series examined taught analogical reasoning directly, but that the nature and extent of each series' instructional recommendations varied widely. (RS/JAD)
Descriptors: Analogy, Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedFawson, Parker C.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Reading Teacher, 2000
Describes how published basal reading programs can be adapted to provide guided reading instruction in K-2 classrooms where large numbers of books are not available but basal stories are accessible. Describes and presents results from a project to assign levels of difficulty to stories in five nationally published basal reading programs. (SR)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Rudie, Helen N. – Elementary English, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Language Arts, Poetry
Peer reviewedShannon, Patrick – Reading Improvement, 1982
Reviews elementary school teachers' reliance on commercial reading materials and suggests, as an objective factor for their teacher behavior, their belief that greater managerial control over classroom instruction will solve the problems of reading programs. Traces the evolution of this assumption and discusses its ramifications. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading. – 1990
A series of nine booklets was developed to help members of textbook adoption committees, teacher educators, inservice leaders, and policymakers gather information, develop evaluation guidelines, and organize their findings as they select new reading programs and evaluate existing ones. Each booklet focuses on a specific aspect of instruction.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedWilson, Lorraine – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes an experience based reading program developed in Melbourne, Australia, for low-income and immigrant children and a series of books to be published which are based on this program. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education
Ross, Elinor P. – 1989
The process of evaluating and selecting basal readers has long been a primary concern for educators. Educators directly involved with textbook adoptions have expressed several concerns, including: time pressures on evaluators; lack of training for evaluators; concerns related to publishers; and correlations with state or district curriculum.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Models
Putnam, Lillian R.; Farber, Frances – 1982
A study compared selected language features of children in five different reading programs. Selected for study were two first grade classes from each of five urban school districts that were using either the Lippincott, Language Experience, Houghton Mifflin, Open Court, or the Ginn 720 basal reading programs. A prereading test was administered to…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Language Acquisition
Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Martin, Leigh Ann; Menon, Shailaja – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2005
The first-grade components of three textbook programs--mainstream basal, combined phonics and literature, and phonics emphasis--were compared on cognitive load (e.g., number of different words) and linguistic content (e.g., number of monosyllabic, simple vowel words). Three levels of three components of a program--literature anthologies, decodable…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Textbooks, Anthologies, Reading Programs
Davison, Alice – 1986
To assist textbook adoption committees in answering the questions that arise as they consider basal reading series, this paper provides a discussion of readability. Following a brief introduction, the second section of the paper offers a background discussion of what readability really means. In addition, this section looks at three factors to…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Program Development
Educational Products Information Exchange Inst., Stony Brook, NY. – 1983
A guide for teachers selecting reading textbooks, this report brings together information about basal programs on the market and clarification of important issues in reading instruction. A general analysis of 20 basal programs includes a prose explication and a table comparing contents (skills), reading selections, methodology, assessment tests,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Meyer, Linda A.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to examine the instructional approaches to decoding and comprehension in the first grade basal reading programs published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich (1983); Houghton Mifflin (1979); Ginn (1976); and SRA Reading Mastery (1983). In addition, analyses were completed on the comprehensibility of matched stories from each of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
