An annual compilation, this report contains summaries of more than 1,000 reading related studies. The summaries are arranged in five categories: teacher preparation and practice, the sociology of reading, the physiology and psychology of reading, reading instruction, and the reading of atypical readers. Specific topics covered in the summaries include (1) teacher attitudes toward reading; (2) preservice and inservice teacher preparation; (3) teacher roles; (4) the role and use of mass media in reading instruction; (5) readability and legibility; (6) the role, development, and use of libraries; (7) reading in nonschool settings; (8) freedom of press and censorship; (9) research methodology; (10) sex differences in reading; (11) intellectual abilities and reading; (12) visual perception; (13) oral reading; (14) personality, self-concept, and reading; (15) reading rate; (16) corrective and remedial reading; (17) television and reading instruction; (18) reading diagnosis; (19) content area reading; and (20) reading and language abilities. (FL)