The Text-Relatedness of Seven Basal Reading Series. Reading Research and Instruction

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Reading Research and Instruction

Volume

27

Publication Date

1987

First Page

26

Last Page

35

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the degree to which instruction in teachers’ manuals related to the stories students would read in their basal readers. Five instructional units from grades one through six in each of seven basals were randomly selected for analysis from the table of contents. Three raters were trained to conduct the analysis. Data indicated that the instruction in teachers’ manuals related to children's stories less than 33% of the time. Findings were interpreted with respect to Mason's (1983) findings that teachers related their instruction to the text about 24% of the time. Implications for teachers, text adoption committees and publishers were discussed.

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