This paper outlines the first stage of a research project on the topic of boys (aged 11-17) and literacy and the mediating role that families play in building interpersonal relations around reading and guiding boys into a broad range of literacy practices in the home. Findings from this research will inform a comparative study of boys identified…

Based on a survey of the reading background of students enrolled in a college freshman composition course, the author questions the adolescent reading list compiled by G. Robert Carlsen. (HOD)

Notes that the terms "interest" and "preference" are often used interchangeably in reading research. Points out that both the sources and uses of data are clearer when the differences in the two terms are emphasized. (FL)

Reviews research concerned with factors contributing to the reading success and failure of children. (FL)

This interview, part of a series of articles on prominent European figures in the field of reading, provides comments by Jean Foucambert, National Inspector of Education in France. (AEA)

Reports on a study that reveals that reading may not play as important a role in content area teaching as many believe. (AEA)

Presents eight premises to validate concept that through the reading of a wide variety of carefully selected picture books, children can begin to develop the lifelong habit of reading as well as to make progress toward the development of excellence in literary taste. (Author/EJS)

Reports on the construction and validation of a reading attitude scale designed to measure attitudes toward academic, general, and vocational reading materials. (FL)

Offers suggestions for ways to motivate reluctant readers, assign reading autobiographies, and prepare students for the SAT. (AEA)

Administered the Survey of Reading Attitudes to 235 intermediate-grade students in a suburban parochial school. Results indicate the development of reading attitudes is influenced by a variety of variables, and suggests school systems should determine their own local norms for the eight dimensions measured by the survey. (Author/RC)

Concludes that branched stories, which involve the reader actively in a story, can produce better attitudes toward reading on the part of elementary school students than stories from basal readers. (FL)

Provides an analysis of what adolescents like to read and how teachers can motivate them to read. Presents a list of recommended books for young adults. (RL)

Discusses the methodology and results of a study in which elementary school children were questioned before and after a series of tutoring sessions about how they would teach their children to read. After tutoring, the students showed increased recognition of the importance of reading aloud and using interesting materials. (HTH)

Reports the findings of an investigation into the relationships among college readers' reading achievement, vividness of visual imagery, and reading attitudes. Concludes that a small but significant negative correlation exists between the achievement and imagery variables and that a moderate partial correlation exists between imagery and attitude…

Scores of 149 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade pupils, on a reading attitude inventory correlated .17 with combined reading scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Tests. Although statistically significant, this finding suggests that the inventory did not reflect an attitudinal construct that was a major factor in reading success. (Author/BW)