Provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress are the exercises in and results of a survey to determine attitudes toward literary instruction and to discover what types of literature individuals read and how often they read. Overall national results and results for such categories as region, sex, color, parental education, and size and type of community are given for the four age groups involved--9 year olds, 13 year olds, 17 year olds, and adults (26-35). (Statistical data in Appendix A. p.147-261 is omitted because small type is nonreproducible.) (MF) Primary type of information provided by report: Results (Topical).