A 15-minute reading inventory was administered to 188 students in seven rural districts to assess and compare the reading maturity of the college-bound juniors and seniors in those districts. Results showed that on a leisure reading attitude scale, the college-bound students had an average score of 60 points with 20 being the lowest and 100 the…

A study was conducted to determine the attitudes and preferences of 38 intellectually gifted intermediate grade students toward their recreational reading habits. The students' parents also were surveyed to describe the children's reading readiness development. The results showed that the students preferred books over other materials, liked…

SOME WAYS CHILDREN CAN TURN TO READING FOR INFORMATION AND ENJOYMENT ARE DISCUSSED UNDER THE FOLLOWING SEVEN HEADINGS--TEACH CHILDREN TO READ EASILY AND WELL, MAKE BOOKS AVAILABLE ON MANY LEVELS AND TOPICS, PROMOTE BOOKS ACTIVELY, READ TO CHILDREN EVERYDAY, HAVE CHILDREN SHARE THEIR READING, LET CHILDREN FILL IN A READING DESIGN, AND READ…

Offering a synthesis of research and thought on the notion of newsreading as a form of play, this paper focuses on newsreading as a symbolic action of incorporating cultural attitudes by reading a newspaper. Sections of the paper discuss the following topics: (1) play, culture, and communication--defining play in its cultural and communicative…

The need to develop in children a desire to read and an appreciation of worthwhile reading materials is discussed. Each chapter is written by an authority and covers a different aspect of children's library book reading. Topics discussed include: the courage and valor of characters in books and the importance of these to children; the authors of…

Children's own stories and drawings as well as data on children's choices for reading material were analyzed by race, sex, and age for preferences in settings, actors, and need representation. Books for children chosen by literary critics and by persons who buy books for children were also analyzed for what children and adults look for in these…

The speaker challenges his audience to devise imaginative and effective means of obtaining for children ready-access to books that will help them develop an image of the future worthy of the previously undreamed-of capability, health, and welfare enjoyed at the present time. It is up to the present generation, he says, to help children achieve the…

The relationship of reading material to delinquent behavior has been a much discussed subject. This author has taken some steps toward identifying and understanding the emotional concomitants of reading. He investigated the perceptions of emotional concomitants which exist among a sizable and geographically diversified group of subjects presumed…

This book is a systematic examination of the range of fiction available to Australian children during the first one hundred years of the nation's existence, 1841-1941. The author discusses books written either by Australians or visitors and published in Australia and books set in Australia but published overseas. He places these books within the…

This 48-item annotated bibliography is a supplement to the basic one published in 1970. These bibliographies are selective subject guides prepared to aid in the fulfillment of the mission of Air Force libraries in the Pacific area by providing reading materials for research, reference, job information, self-education, collateral reading assistance…

To help educators and librarians meet the demands of adult basic education students, a guide was prepared which: (1) discusses criteria for selecting materials for use in adult education classes; and (2) includes an annotated bibliography of materials appropriate to adult learners. Selection considerations included: (1) interest in subject area:…

Describes three literacy organization and public library programs: Project LEARN (Cleveland, Ohio), which encourages higher-level beginning adult readers to want to read on their own; Greenville County (South Carolina) Library's Latchkey Kids Program; and policies on unattended and disruptive children developed by Iowa City and Cedar Rapids (Iowa)…

Claims multiple-storyline books will continue to grow in popularity because the reader (1) is the major protagonist; (2) can make plot decisions and become the writer; (3) can choose exciting action; and (4) finds material readily available. (NH)

Describes children's reactions to a television adaptation of a juvenile novel. Finds that the children enjoyed discussing the adaptation with the interviewer and usually sought out the original book to read on their own. Concludes that both books and their televised version should be incorporated into a wider approach to teaching fiction. (MM)

This report describes a program implemented to improve attitudes toward recreational reading. The targeted population consisted of kindergarten, first, third, and fifth grade students from one urban and two suburban school districts in a major metropolitan area in northern Illinois. Evidence for the existence of the problem included surveys of…