"Reading maturity" is a construct that looks broadly at reading development encompassing not only basic reading skills but reading habits, attitudes, and dispositions. It has a rich history and this article calls for a need to make reading maturity a necessary part of the literacy curriculum. It offers a working description and reviews…

Encourages teachers to use imitative reading, choral reading, and repeated readings in the classroom to improve intonation, speaking skills, word recognition, reading rate, and comprehension, while boosting self-confidence. (RAE)

Determines what elementary teachers' believe are the most effective assessment practices for gathering data about the reading performance of their students. Finds that teachers perceived all reading assessment as having some degree of merit. Examines the views of beginning and experienced teachers, as well as primary and intermediate teachers. (SG)

Details a study that examined whether second grade children who were achieving at various reading levels scored differently on perceptual and perceptual motor tasks. (FL)

Advocates oral reading in the classroom for diagnostic purposes, skill development, and recreation; presents seven specific situations children should not be required to read before a peer audience. (MAI)

An investigation of the relationship of four perceptual and perceptual-motor skills to two measures of reading achievement in normal and learning disabled children in the second grade suggested that deficits in perceptual skills are not highly related to reading performance. (MKM)