This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) prekindergarten screening and first grade reading achievement; (2) the influence of the instructional environment on children's acquisition of reading; (3) possible relationships among failure feedback, learned helplessness, and reading achievement in the fourth grade; (4) the principal's role in reading achievement and reading programs; (5) predictor variables in reading achievement at the kindergarten and first grade levels; (6) the relationship between student reading ability and textbook difficulty; (7) behavioral and cognitive antecedents of reading achievement in the elementary grades; (8) environmental print identification by preschool children; (9) reading material selection by fifth grade students with accurate and inaccurate self-concepts; and (10) the relationship of prosodic cues to reading fluency. (MM)