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Martinez, Miriam G. – 1977
The sentences in two first grade basal readers were categorized using Joan Tough's language function classification system to determine whether lower level basal readers allowed children to use their knowledge of language functions in reading. The range of language functions and language uses in the basals was compared to those that Tough found in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children
