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Comparing Recreational Reading Levels with Reading Levels from an Informal Reading Inventory.
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Smith, Lawrence L.; Joyner, C. Rosanne – Reading Horizons, 1990
Compares second grade and fifth grade students' recreational reading levels (when students self-select library books for recreation reading) in relation to independent, instructional, and frustration levels as determined with an informal reading inventory. Concludes that recreational reading levels should not be viewed as synonymous with…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Independent Reading
Reliability of Reading Interest Assessment: An Applied Study.
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Joels, Rosie Webb; Anderson, Betty – Reading Horizons, 1983
Concludes that the usefulness of reading interest assessment is not impaired by the change in students' reading interests across a 36-week interval. (FL)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Interest Inventories, Intermediate Grades, Reading Instruction
The Newbery Award Books: Are They Being Read?
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Foster, Susan – Reading Horizons, 1983
Concludes that many third- and fifth-grade students in Oklahoma have not read many of the Newbery Award-winning books. (FL)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Elementary Education, Grade 3
The Reading Preferences of Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders.
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Fisher, Peter J. L. – Reading Horizons, 1988
Examines the influence of teachers, age, sex, and race on the reading preferences of third, fourth, and fifth grade pupils. Concludes that the tested variables do explain differences, but that there are more similarities than differences. (RS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5