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ERIC Number: EJ371821
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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The Purpose of Basals: What Children Think.
Cairney, Trevor H.
Reading Teacher, v41 n4 p420-28 Jan 1988
Concludes that children have well-developed knowledge of the purposes of reading materials and instructional procedures and that their perceptions of basal readers are very negative. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Reading Research, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Purpose (Reading)