Reveals that novel length fiction, particularly that related to current movies, is the most popular choice of high school students who purchase books from book clubs, and that relationships exist between factors of academic achievement, number of books purchased, and enjoyment of reading. (MD)

Contributors propose five ways for students to improve their reading: combining television newscasts and note taking, determining the main ideas of pictures, using multicultural materials, developing vocabulary through color word contests, and finishing reading what a teacher has started. Also discussed is informal research indicating that…

Explains ways that juvenile science fiction has changed and improved during the last decade. Includes a bibliography of titles popular with children and adolescents. (MKM)

The purchase of $3,500 worth of paperback books led to 70 percent participation in an Ohio high school reading program run by the library-media center. (An annotated sampling of paperback titles purchased for the reading program is provided.) (MKM)

Suggests 22 ways to motivate reluctant or poor readers and lists 30 sources of materials for remedial readers. (MKM)

Reviews physical and mental factors that influence the reading habits of older Americans. Discusses their motivations for reading, reading programs for institutionalized elders, ways to encourage older people to use the public library, and other ways to encourage older people to read. (SKC)

Describes a program designed to build a literate environment to meet the strengths and needs of Job Corps trainees. (AEA)

Illustrates how prediction can be used to improve content area reading, provides examples of successful prediction techniques, and encourages teachers to develop their own uses of prediction. (FL)

Describes how one teacher became a risk taker and changed the English curriculum that was not working for her at-risk high school students. Describes a reading program which built on students' small successes, extended their personal interests through tradebooks, and provided them with reading strategies they could use in other classes. (RS)

Describes community involvement projects around the world which supply children with reading materials and special instruction. (MKM)

Summarizes the history of American magazines for children and adolescents from the eighteenth century through the present, and notes that although young people's magazines may come and go, they always reflect the times. (HOD)

Describes a systematic approach to reading instruction with gifted students that increases their reading ability and broadens their interests. (AEA)

Discusses the development and accomplishments of a reading program in more than 50 Maryland schools in which all regular activities some to a halt and teachers and students participate in 35 minutes of uninterrupted free reading each school day. (MB)

Discusses the genre of romantic fiction written for teens, proposes research questions, and provides publisher information for teachers who wish to stimulate teenage pleasure reading. (AEA)