A study compared the choices of Charlottesville area children with those from Children's Choice lists, published annually in "The Reading Teacher." Subjects, 62 third- to sixth-grade students, were interviewed before they checked books out of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Main Branch in Charlottesville, Virginia. Children were…

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

Discusses the theme of survival prevalent in many children's books and presents a bibliography of 60 titles listing survival stories of several major types. (TO)

Presents examples from Ezra Jack Keat's "The Snowy Day" to illustrate how children's picture books can teach teachers what curriculum guides may not. (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)

When selecting children's reading materials, teachers should consider the element of value identification and clarification when relevant in addition to the traditional consideration of theme, plot, characterization, and style. (TO)

Describes one teacher's successful use of a wide range of paperback books to stimulate students' interest in and enjoyment of reading. (TO)

This bibliography lists articles, dissertations, and books released from 1889 through 1974 that deal with children's reading interests. The publications address such topics as children's preferences in reading textbooks and in recreational reading, the reading preferences of children in various age groups, children's poetry preferences, and…

This paper discusses two conferences that focus on readership and authorship in an attempt to make reading and writing more significant in the lives of young people. The Arizona Young Authors Conference provides a wide range of opportunities for students to write and to begin to realize their potential as young writers. Participating children,…

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…

Research studies in the areas of children's writing and reading interests are reported.

Suggests a technique for narrowing a large topic into manageable subtopics so that student interest groups may investigate them. (DD)

Annotates 112 books selected by children as the best of those published in l986. (FL)

Contemporary music provides an exciting, inexpensive source of reading material for teaching basic reading skills. (JH)

Reviews research studies investigating the role of literature in elementary schools today. (MM)