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basal reader

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basal reader
n.
A textbook compiled to teach people, especially young children, to read.


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He has spent $2 million on teacher training, created classroom libraries and book rooms, switched from basal readers (think the Dick and Jane series) to a balanced literary approach that uses different types of reading materials and blends phonics and whole language, and installed coaches in each elementary school to embed the new approach to reading instruction.
Proudly I showed the principal around the room, pointing out the stacks of basal readers in braille, the shelf of fine motor manipulatives, the acorns and brightly colored fall leaves on the "feely board," and the slightly tattered play kitchen acquired from a departing teacher.
Israeli 1st-grade children in two different schools in the same neighborhood who were using either a gender-stereotyped or a gender-fair basal reader were asked to judge for a series of female-stereotyped, male-stereotyped, and gender-neutral activities whether they were characteristic of females, of males, or of both.
 
 
 
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