The purposes of this study are to assess Swedish adults' reading and writing skills so that they can be compared with the corresponding skills of students in the comprehensive and upper secondary schools, and to investigate the extent to which adults' reading and writing activities can be described as satisfactory to their needs. The subjects of…

In order to compare the effect of individualized reading and writing instruction for six-year-olds at nursery school with the effect of ordinary preschool activities not including reading and writing instruction, three groups of Linkoping (Sweden) school children were studied--experimental groups (E) and control groups (K1) consisting of preschool…

This study investigated various reading and writing abilities among 25- and 35-year-old residents of Linkoping, Sweden, and assessed the extent to which these individuals' abilities could be regarded as satisfactory for their needs. In all, 377 subjects were tested on the following skills: alphabet recognition, copying ability, reading rate,…