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ProLiteracy, also known as ProLiteracy Worldwide, is an international nonprofit organization that supports literacy programs that help adults learn to read and write. [1] [2] Based in Syracuse, New York, [3] ProLiteracy has slightly less than 1,000 member programs in the U.S. and works with 21 partners in 35 developing countries.
From the beginning of the 20th century, the assessment of the grade level of texts for different grades of readers was a central concern of reading research. It was well known that without correctly graded texts, readers would not improve their reading skill. There were over 1,000 published studies on this topic.
Fourth-grade readers: "Singing Wheels" Fifth-grade readers: "Engine Whistles" Sixth-grade readers: "Runaway Home" Wonder story books: "It Happened One Day", "It Must Be Magic", "After the Sun Sets" Some of these books were later updated, with "The New" added to the front of the book titles.
A graded reader book is an "easy reading" book that supports the extensive reading approach to teaching English as a second or foreign language, and other languages.While many graded reader books are written for native speaker children, more often they are targeted at young adults and above, since children's books are already widely available and deal with topics not relevant to more mature ...
Arthur A. Levine Books, which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded at Scholastic in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer in autumn 1997.
Visually-impaired readers often depend on sources that are typeset or rendered in a large font size (such books are commonly called large-print books). [11] Because large-print unabridged non-electronic media are physically larger and sales quantities are usually smaller, it is generally more expensive to print, inventory, and distribute a ...
In 1996, News Corp sold the brand to Pearson PLC, the global publisher and owner of Penguin and the Financial Times. [10] Then Scott Foresman, along with more than 100 other educational brands, merged to become Pearson, with Scott Foresman adopting the new name, Pearson Scott Foresman. In February 2019, Pearson spun off its US-based K-12 ...
Basal readers have been in use in the United States since the mid-1860s, beginning with a series called the McGuffey Readers. [citation needed] In the McGuffey Readers, the first book focused on teaching Phonics thoroughly, while later readers introduced other vocabulary, including non-phonetic “sight words”. This was the first reader ...