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• Title: From Dick and Jane Readers to Leveled Books: Moving Forward Or Reaching Back? (Opinion)
• Author : Canadian Children's Book News
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 60 KB

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Dick and Jane played the lead roles in a series of books for teaching reading published between 1930 and 1965. You may remember them as the story characters who coined such enduring expressions as, "See Spot run! Run, Spot, run!" and "Look, look. Look up." The controlled vocabulary and sentence structure have provided great fodder for popular culture parodies over the decades. The Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons television show, for example, spawned a new line of clothing when he wore a T-shirt with the catchy phrase: "C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN DOS\RUN." While the tightly-controlled sentence structures and syllable counts of these readers may amuse humourists, they are likely to be unappealing and perhaps even confusing to young children learning to read. The language in books created by piecing together one or two syllable words into simple sentences lacks the natural flow and vibrancy of the language that children hear around them in everyday life and read in children's literature. Many contemporary reading theorists argue that reading is driven by a desire to make sense of print, illustrations and other visuals. When children read books designed to fit within reading level formulas, figuring out the words becomes the goal--rather than reading for meaning. Book publishers and teachers will tell you that Dick and Jane readers, with their restricted language, have no place in today's classrooms where reading for meaning is the primary goal.

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