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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 ...
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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.
Mabel O'Donnell (1890–1985) was an author of popular children's literature, mostly basal readers that helped young readers build stamina and endurance. O'Donnell is best known for the Alice and Jerry and Janet and John series. Books by O'Donnell sold more than 100 million copies around the world.
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]
American Reading Instruction. International Reading Association. ISBN 978-0-87207-348-7. OCLC 49976815. (with prologue by Richard D. Robinson, epilogue by Norman A.Stahl, and history of reading since 1967 by P. David Pearson) Watters, David H. (December 1985). "'I Spake as a Child': Authority, Metaphor and the New England Primer".
Ashton-Warner received a number of honors, including the New Zealand State Literary Fund's Scholarship in Letters in 1958. [2] Her autobiography, I Passed this Way (1979), won the New Zealand Book Award for Non-fiction in 1980. [6] She was awarded the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award in the same year. [2]