For instance, Aukerman(1981) reviewed 15 elementary basal reader series. Findings showed
that all the series contain a reading readiness program; and they provide the children with
visual and auditory discrimination, alphabet, sound-symbol association, and shaping of
letters. They use picture books in the early stages of reading development, with 2-sentence
captions, expanding to 3 and then 4-sentence captions. They have a supplementary word
identification booklet that matches the stories that the children read in the basal reader and
follow a phonic analysis approach.