Reports on research done in collaboration with classroom teachers in Arab language kindergartens to demonstrate the educational values of storybook reading. (MG)

A study of reading achievement in an Israeli kibbutz discovered reading disability to be no more common among boys than among girls, in contrast to studies done in the United States where boys are more likely to have reading disabilities than girls. (MKM)

Finds that kindergarteners in schools where children tend to succeed owned far more books and were read to at home far more often than were children in less successful schools. (FL)