ABSTRACT
Some of the more provocative distinctions between electronic and printed text that have
been discussed in this section, such as the availability of multiple text segments linked in
hypertext networks, may have only limited relevance to the circumstances of the
beginning reader. It is in the area of electronic resources, designed to support the novice,
that textual transformations have their greatest significance in primary classrooms.
Anderson-Inman and Horney (chap. 2, this volume) have described how such resources
