Updates earlier reviews of the research investigating how television viewing and reading might be related. Points out new directions in the research, focusing on research after 1980. Discusses implications for professionals in the field of reading. (SR)

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

This study is concerned with the measurement of reading flexibility. The contents include: "Review of Literature," which discusses the different concepts of reading flexibility and presents several definitions followed by a summary of variables revealed in these definitions; "Synthesis of Strengths and Weaknesses," which looks…

The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that there is no significant difference in the number of books voluntarily read between sixth grade pupils in an experimental group having stories read to them and pupils in a control group having no stories read to them, and there is no significant difference in the attitudes toward reading…

Viewing reading as involving a continual inputting of graphic symbols and responses involving varying degrees of comprehension, 10 categories of reading behavior and/or comprehension manifested by mature adult readers were identified. The 10 categories were arranged in order from simple to complex. The validity of the hierarchy was assessed by…

A survey shows that for adults, reading is not a substitute for human contact: the socially isolated read less. (MKM)

Four readers, ranging in age from 62 to 82, were selected for intensive analysis of their reading strategies, habits, and interests. Interviewing provided demographic information and reading habits and interests. Each person read orally an unfamiliar expository selection rated at ninth-grade-level difficulty by the Dale-Chall Readability Formula…

This book is a collection of 75 papers presented and discussed at the 1963 International Reading Association conference, which promoted "Reading as an Intellectual Activity" as its theme. Papers from the conference are presented in the following four groups: main addresses, thirteen sequences of papers on different facets of reading…

A traditional reading program and an individualized reading program were compared in terms of numbers of books read by pupils in a given period, the types of books selected by the pupils, and readability levels of books selected. It was hypothesized that individualized reading pupils would read more, and that pupils in the traditional reading…