Friday, September 05, 2003
Literature Anthologies: The Task for First-Grade Readers
http://www.ciera.org/library/reports/inquiry-1/index.html
http://www.ciera.org/library/reports/inquiry-1/1-009/1-009%20Front%20Matter.html
CIERA Report #1-009
Shailaja Menon and Elfrieda H. Hiebert
University of Michigan
CIERA Inquiry 1: Readers and Texts
What are the characteristics of readers and texts that have the greatest influence on early reading? What are the tasks posed to young readers by currently available beginning reading programs?
In this study, Menon and Hiebert consider the tasks for beginning readers posed by currently available beginning reading programs.The authors identified a set of guidelines for evaluating beginning reading texts. According to their model, such texts should be engaging, accessible , and generalizable . Menon and Hiebert used these guidelines to examine the literature components of three influential first-grade reading programs--a Literature-Core (LC), a mixed Literature/Phonics (LP), and a Phonics-Core (PC) program.
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