Influences on Basal Reader Programs.

Durkin, Dolores

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Publication Date: 1987

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Influences on Basal Reader Programs.

Durkin, Dolores

Elementary School Journal, v87 n3 p331-41 Jan 1987

Describes how in the 1960s and 1970s critics of the schools as well as the transitory interests of the schools themselves were the greatest forces for change in basal reader programs. Discusses how current demand for high test scores has influenced those who prepare basal material. (Author/NH)

Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Influences, Kindergarten, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Teaching Guides, Teaching Methods, Textbook Evaluation, Workbooks

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Historical Materials

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Language: English

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