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A Content Analysis of the Writing Assignments Located in the Five Basal Readers Adopted by the State of Texas

The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the specific writing assignments provided in the five basal readers, grades one through eight, adopted by the state of Texas. These seventy-eight basal reader's guides were first analyzed for statements indicating specific writing assignments. The total number of writing assignments in each of the teacher's guides were totaled for each publisher. The location of each writing assignment which supported the TABS categories was recorded. The writing assignments which did not support the TABS categories were assigned appropriate categories and recorded on a table. Another table compared the five publishers and the total number of writing assignments supporting the TABS categories. A fifth table compared the five publishers and the total number of writing assignments found in other categories not supporting the TABS categories.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332011
Date08 1900
CreatorsMelton, Lynda Gayle White
ContributorsGreenlaw, M. Jean, Halstead, Francis E., 1930-, Black, Janet K., Griffin, Margaret M.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatxv, 214 leaves, Text
CoverageUnited States - Texas
RightsPublic, Melton, Lynda Gayle White, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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