This book, one of a series, shares ideas on how parents can help children cope with and learn from tests. The message of the series urges parents and children to spend time together, talk about stories, and learn together. The first part of each book presents stories appropriate for varying grade levels, both younger children and those in grades…

Noting that reading well is at the heart of all learning, this guide suggests reading activities that will prevent a decline in children's reading skills over winter vacation, and the guide encourages parents to spend time with their children through these activities. The guide provides links to the following suggested reading lists: the American…

Suggests that children's literature in developing countries include the richness of both historical and scientific themes. (RB)

Elementary partially sighted students read significantly more total books and school books using the Visolett (a low vision aid) than using large print text books, and the junior high partially sighted students read significantly more total pages using the Visolett. (Author/CL)

Relates experiences encountered by the author in going into schools to talk to children about children's books he has written. Discusses children's responses to literature, the need to attend carefully to what children say when they talk about their reading, and classroom activities that encourage an enjoyment of literature. (GT)

Evaluates the place of oral reading in the school curriculum. Argues the point that oral reading should be an exercise in communication between the reader and listeners and not an exercise in catching the reader in a mistake nor a method of keeping a class quiet. (BF/JH)

Reports on a study that investigated the longitudinal effects of television viewing on the frequency with which children read books and comic books at home; and the causal mechanisms that underlie television's effects on leisure-time reading. Suggests that television viewing reduced attitudes toward reading and toward ability to concentrate. (TB)

Discusses a survey of 22 well-known writers' reading habits: how they read; why they read (reading to know, reading to learn craft, technique, and style); and what they read. Suggests that students would be well-served by learning to read like writers, developing in-event and post-reading observations. (SR)

Offers principals some practical ideas to help youngsters become competent, motivated readers. Principals can spend spare moments reading favorite books to students and encourage others to do likewise, help form book clubs, provide cozy reading areas and high-interest materials, help nonfluent readers practice their skills, and ask good readers…

The Stanford Reading and Television Study was undertaken to research the relationship between children's television viewing and their acquisition of reading skills. This progress report outlines the design of the study, describes the nature of the data which were collected, and summarizes key analyses of the data. The results reported indicate a…

This paper is based on a transactional viewpoint (involving writer, reader, and text) in which the text is no longer external but is constructed and reconstructed by the reader during reading. Using a database developed for a previous study (Goodman and Goodman, 1978), this research examined pronoun usage in three basal texts by evaluating the…

Discusses the results of a survey of children's reading interests classified by age and by sex within age levels. (TO)

Suggests that two types of books have particular appeal for children, those which create vivid sensory impressions and those which allow the child to deal vicariously with universal emotions and then discusses several titles of each type. (TO)

Proposes using Greek mythology as one way to provide aesthetic enjoyment of the common cultural heritage of man and create a love for literature within the student. (TO)

The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument or instruments to measure the attitudes toward reading of children in grades one through six. The Likert-type scale was chosen as the most appropriate type of instrument to meet established criteria. Two rural schools and two urban schools with normally distributed populations according to…