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Conway, Grace; Mechler, Geraldine – 1983
To determine how basal readers reflect the different kinds of family living found in American society today, information was gathered through an analysis of 462 stories relating to family life in eight basal reading series in grades one to six and a single series in grades one through three. Only fiction stories about children were used. The…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Elementary Education