Teachers and literacy specialists in districts across the country are rewriting the questions in some of the most commonly used basal readers. You might have heard about this new effort; we wrote ...

Dozens of teachers and literacy specialists from across the country hunkered down at round tables, with laptops, pens, and paper, intent on rewriting the collections that wield tremendous influence ...

Readability has traditionally been predicted by tabulating surface structure variables such as vocabulary and sentence length. These criteria are used in determining levels within basal reading series ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 87, No. 3, Special Issue: The Basal Reader in American Reading Instruction (Jan., 1987), pp. 357-366 (10 pages) As more is learned about the nature of reading and ...