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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Martinez, Miriam G.; McGee, Lea M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2000
Examines the historical, political, and research roots which have shifted reading instruction from being basal dominated to more literature driven. Argues the future of children's literature in reading instruction depends on exploiting the potential of online and electronic texts, fine-tuning genres of literature, and constructing theories of why…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Electronic Text, Elementary Education
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Monaghan, E. Jennifer – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Offers a naturalistic picture of literacy in colonial North America by exploring family literacy in an early eighteenth-century urban New England setting. Uses the diaries and other writings of Cotton Mather (1663-1728) as sources on literacy within his family. Notes the importance of writing within the family. (SR)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Family Relationship, Literacy, Reading Research