Hidden and Trick Themes: Children's Primers.

Zelan, Karen

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ERIC Number: EJ343043

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Publication Date: 1986

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Hidden and Trick Themes: Children's Primers.

Zelan, Karen

Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, v16 n1 p95-111 1986

Maintains that learning to read must take advantage of the child's natural playful tendencies. Shows how stories in widely-used school primers make use of trick themes based on puns, figures of speech, or metaphors. Concludes that such stories should be used to reinforce the relationship between reading and natural language. (JDH)

Descriptors: Aural Learning, Basal Reading, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Play, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Reading Research, Teacher Education, Textbook Content

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