Reports that librarians in Nebraska find the Golden Sower Award program to be a positive force in influencing children's reading habits and awareness of literature. (FL)

Explores the change in attitudes toward young adult literature since it developed in the 1960s, and considers the future of the genre. (EL)

Concludes that reading interests of children were similar across achievement levels. Offers tips to help low-achievers choose recreational reading materials. (FL)

Describes activities designed to improve the critical reading skills of young readers. (FL)

Reports findings of a study that analyzed approximately 2,000 selections from basal readers to determine the nature of their content. Concludes that only 57.7% of the selections had subject matter content, none had functional ("knowing how") content, and none had ethos ("knowing to") content. (FL)

Argues that becoming aware that it is the reader who makes the material interesting is a remedial student's first step toward command of reading. Offers techniques used in college remedial classes and a teachers' workshop to develop this ability. (FL)

Lists reading materials that can help students learn more about topics in which they are interested, learn to do new things, and entertain themselves. (FL)

Administered the Survey of Reading Attitudes to 68 intermediate-grade students to determine the reliability of the eight attitudinal dimensions which it measures. The test retest interval was seven days. Results showed the scores were relatively stable. Reading anxiety appeared to be a less stable dimension. (Author/JAC)

Many secondary students have mastered the skills necessary for proficient reading, but they dislike reading and avoid it at every opportunity. This article briefly describes 12 classroom-tested strategies for inducing these youngsters to read. (Author/SJL)

Third through ninth-grade students were asked to write an essay on the subject, "Why I like to read," to determine children's language in describing their purposes for reading, to gain some impressions of what functions and purposes might emerge, and to analyze whether particular functions appear at various developmental levels. (HOD)

Describes a recreational reading program implemented at the Diagnostic Learning Center in Houston to increase home involvement and improve reading attitudes and habits of disabled readers. (MKM)

Presents an annotated list of nonfiction titles for young adults that are popular with all types of readers, especially reluctant readers. (AEF)

Offers a series of questions to help readers establish a chronology of feelings about reading, based on the facts of their earliest reading history. Argues that by answering these questions the reader will understand what kind of reader they can become. (MG)

Compares the experience of watching television with the experience of reading books, and cites examples of television programs that have introduced viewers to the world of ideas and led them to look for more information in books. Librarians are advised to include a printed bibliography of related books when they check out a video masterpiece. (MES)

Describes the successful implementation in a Georgia elementary school of the Reading Millionaires Project, a reading incentive program to promote recreational reading and to create student interest in reading. (SR)