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Grissom, Pauline Viola West – 1975
The two readers used in this study were both editions of the Ginn Basal Reading Series. Illustrations in the older Revised Editions depicted no black characters. The newer 100 Editions introduce black characters in the illustrations. The research tested children's preferences for these basal readers by sex, grade level, achievement levels within…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Black Students, Books, Doctoral Dissertations
