What the researchers wanted to see instead was more emphasis on the context in which words appear and on the usefulness and pleasures of reading. Those bits focused mostly on the names, shapes, and sounds of individual letters. Writing in the current issue of The Reading Teacher, Barbara Fowles Mates and Linda Strommen note that of the 350 segments they viewed, only 184 had literacy-related content. So say two researchers who analyzed 10 episodes of the popular children's public-television show Sesame Street to see whether it reflects current thinking on the development of children's literacy skills. Can Big Bird Read?: Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird may be good at teaching preschoolers the alphabet, but when it comes to teaching reading, they may be delivering the wrong kinds of messages.
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