This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: development of a primary reading vocabulary; a strategy for teaching students how to identify main ideas and supporting details; reading readiness and reading programs in Wisconsin public school kindergartens; approaches for teaching reading to educationlly disadvantaged students; effects on reading achievement of a computer-managed systems approach, diagnostic prescriptive teaching, a high motivational low anxiety reading program, a training program in humanistic education, paired simultaneous oral reading, and reading textbook selection procedures; a program for involving parents in the teaching of reading; a method for helping children learn to anticipate subsequent information in their reading; the relationship between teacher expectance of student reading achievement and formality of teacher speech; strategies for teaching reading comprehension; effects of home reading experiences on academic readiness; a cross-age tutoring program; student and teacher attitudes toward basal reader programs; and a criterion-referenced reading program for kindergarten pupils. (GW)