A study involving 18 children (ages 4-11) at a residential school for students with deafness found that children who participated in group storybook reading twice each week for 5 months performed more independently on an emergent reading task and were more interested in books than children in the control group. (Author/CR)

Analysis of the survey responses of 26 residential schools for the deaf found such positive literacy practices as counselors reading to children individually, supervising homework, and encouraging children to write letters and read independently. However, in many residences, materials were not regularly rotated and group storybook reading was not…