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Basal reader; Concept-oriented; Directed listening and thinking activity; Guided reading; Independent reading; Literature circle; Phonics; Reciprocal teaching; Structured word inquiry; Sustained silent reading; Synthetic phonics; Whole language
Basal readers have been in use in the United States since the mid-1860s, beginning with a series called the McGuffey Readers. [citation needed] In the McGuffey Readers, the first book focused on teaching Phonics thoroughly, while later readers introduced other vocabulary, including non-phonetic “sight words”. This was the first reader ...
Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...
Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...
Ellen M. Cyr was born in Montreal, Canada. [1] She was the daughter of Ellen S. (née Howard) and Narcisse Cyr, [7] a clergyman and professor of French at Boston University.[8] [9] She had at least four siblings, including a sister named Lucy E. Cyr. [9] [10] Her grandfather was Leland Howard, a reverend from Rutland, Vermont.
A primer (in this sense usually pronounced / ˈ p r ɪ m ər /, [1] sometimes / ˈ p r aɪ m ər /, usually the latter in modern British English [2]) is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of any subject. [3]
Balbharati (The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. [1] Balbharati is publishing integrated textbooks for Class I to Class VII. In this type of textbook all subjects are included in one book and that book is split into 4 parts according to unit tests.