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Durkin, Dolores – 1990
A study examined th phonics instruction that five basal reader series provide from kindergarten through grade six. The five basal programs (designated as Series A through E) that were examined are both similar and dissimilar in the recommendations they make for phonics. One series covers as many as 129 letter-sound correspondences; another covers…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading)