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| Reading Instruction | 2 |
| Educational History | 1 |
| Educational Trends | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Futures (of Society) | 1 |
| Politics of Education | 1 |
| Readability | 1 |
| Reading Achievement | 1 |
| Reading Difficulties | 1 |
| Satire | 1 |
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| Language Arts | 1 |
| Reading Teacher | 1 |
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| Creative Works | 2 |
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Peer reviewedTaylor, Louise A. – Reading Teacher, 1980
A parable showing how teachers in the past and the present have attempted various methods of teaching reading and how no method has succeeded in making readers of all pupils. (GT)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedPower, Brenda Miller – Language Arts, 2003
Presents humorous, yet horrifying, ramifications of leveling students for reading instruction. Tells the story of an adult who is unable to buy books because the ones she wants are not at the appropriate "level." (SG)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Politics of Education, Readability, Reading Achievement
