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Basal readers are textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren. [1] Commonly called "reading books" or "readers" they are usually published as anthologies that combine previously published short stories , excerpts of longer narratives, and original works.
In both cases, the reading scores were lower than in the first year of testing, in 1992. And in the case of eighth-graders, it was the lowest score ever recorded. (Scores were down last year and ...
Fun With Dick and Jane. 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.
Vera Southgate wrote over fifty primers and reading books, often included in basal reading schemes. These books provided a structured, step-by-step approach to teaching children to read. She gained widespread recognition for the Well Loved Tales , a Ladybird-graded reading book series, which sold 80 million copies but reached a much larger ...
Research has shown that reading to kids from birth can have an impact on helping them learn to read. One study recruited more than 250 pairs of mothers and their babies (who were between the ages ...
Alice and Jerry was a basal reader educational series published and used in classrooms from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. The books sold nearly 100 million copies worldwide. This series competed at the time with the Dick and Jane educational seri