Further Attempts to Integrate and Urbanize First Grade Reading Textbooks

In a previous article1 content analyses of one of. the first published multi-ethnic first grade reading series were presented and discussed. These analyses demonstrated that in many ways this series was similar to most traditional publishers' series which contain all characters and are popularly called the Dick and Jane books. Ratings of theme, sexand ageappropriateness of activities and character attributes provided frequency distributions much the same as those series most commonly used in teaching children to read. The environmental setting of the multiethnic stories was even more suburban than the other series, despite the intention of its authors to create an Urban series. The stories did contain a striking integration of ethnic groups, however, leading to the conclusion that what is actually being depicted is a Negro family living in a happy, stable, white suburban neighborhood.2

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• Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks

  Xiaofei Lu, David A Gamson et al.•International Journal of Corpus…•2014

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