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Bettelheim, Bruno; Zelan, Karen – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1982
Identifies several reasons why children do not enjoy reading, including rote learning, unjustified reduction in number of words contained in primers, patronizing of the reader, unnatural sentence structure, and teacher dominance. Describes a Swiss reading program as an example of a better alternative to American primers. (DC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Readability
Barchers, Suzanne; Pfeffinger, Charla – Teacher Ideas Press, 2005
After more than a decade in print, "Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers" continues to outsell all comparable books on Readers Theatre. "More RTBR" capitalizes on both the popularity of "Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers" and the emphasis on fluency due to the recommendations of the National Reading Panel.…
Descriptors: Scripts, Readability Formulas, Readability, Beginning Reading
