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Download full textSpiegel, Dixie Lee – 1981
Intended for classroom teachers and administrators who want their schools to reflect commitment to the idea that reading for pleasure is an essential part of every successful reading program, this book provides suggestions by which educators can coordinate their efforts with librarians and parents to get children to read voluntarily. The book is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Guidelines, Independent Reading, Program Development
Feeley, Joan T.; And Others – 1979
To update the findings of a 1971 study, a study seeking to identify the interest patterns and media preferences of fourth and fifth grade children was undertaken in 1978. The responses of 731 children to an interest inventory were subjected to separate factor analytic and analysis of variance procedures. The former were used to cluster…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Interests, Demography, Elementary Education
Larkin, Ernest F.; And Others – 1977
Of a random sampling of 500 persons living in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, 167 were in the 21 to 34 age group whose newspaper reading habits and attitudes toward newspapers were being studied. The profile of that group's attitudes toward news media, particularly newspapers, shows that these young adults are less "newspaper oriented" than…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Individual Characteristics, Life Style, Mass Media
Ngandu, Kathleen M.; O'Rourke, Bill – 1979
To gather information about reading as it relates to older adults, 267 people, ranging in age from 60 to 93 years, were asked to complete questionnaires. Specific information elicited concerned reading habits, reading materials, time spent in reading daily, time spent watching television, reading interests, preferred television shows, and reading…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Literature Appreciation, Needs Assessment, Older Adults
O'Connor, Marie E. – 1980
This paper discusses the role of reading in the lives of high school students and discusses research that suggests ways to motivate adolescents to read. Research reviewed in the paper indicates that the major factors that influence adolescent reading are gender, age or maturity, intelligence, and socioeconomic background. The summary of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, High School Students, Literature Reviews
GAVER, MARY V. – 1960
THE CHARACTERISTIC ABILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN READING AND OTHER RELATED SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO HAD ACCESS TO CENTRALIZED LIBRARY SERVICES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE WHO DID NOT. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM SIX SCHOOLS WITH VARYING SCHOOL LIBRARY PROVISIONS WHICH INCLUDED EXAMPLES OF--(1) A CENTRALIZED SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Library Services, Library Skills
Waterman, David C., Comp.; Gibbs, Vanita M., Comp. – 1981
Focusing on reading for enjoyment, the seven articles in this collection were drawn from the Tenth Annual Reading Conference held at Indiana State University. Topics discussed in the articles are: (1) reading aloud to students, (2) how to have fun while teaching vocabulary, (3) the enjoyment and affective dimensions of "EAS into Reading," (4)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Enrichment, Literature Appreciation, Motivation Techniques
De Santi, Roger Joseph – 1976
Four readers, ranging in age from 62 to 82, were selected for intensive analysis of their reading strategies, habits, and interests. Interviewing provided demographic information and reading habits and interests. Each person read orally an unfamiliar expository selection rated at ninth-grade-level difficulty by the Dale-Chall Readability Formula…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Miscue Analysis, Older Adults, Oral Reading
Mikulecky, Larry Joseph – 1976
This dissertation reports the development of the Mikulecky Behavioral Reading Attitude Measure (MBRAM), designed to be appropriate for use with mature readers. Items were written with direct reference to the Hovland-Rosenberg tricomponent model of attitude and to the stages of Krathwohl's Taxonomy of the Affective Domain. The MBRAM was…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Doctoral Dissertations, Norms, Postsecondary Education
Stamm, Keith R.; Fortini-Campbell, Lisa – 1979
A telephone questionnaire was designed to collect data on community identification, community involvement, and newspaper use. The entire questionnaire was pretested three times over the telephone and was revised after each pretest, yielding a final form between five and ten minutes in length. The questionnaire was administered to a proportionate…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Audiences, Community Involvement, Community Relations
APPLEGATE, DON J. – 1968
ON THE BASIS OF SELECTED RESEARCH FINDINGS, A DISTINCTION BETWEEN RECREATIONAL AND INDIVIDUALIZED READING AND A PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM ARE DISCUSSED. PLANS FOR FLEXIBLE GROUPINGS AND THEIR COMBINATIONS, SHARING ACTIVITIES, RECORD KEEPING, EVALUATING PROGRESS, AND INITIATING A PROGRAM ARE PRESENTED. REGULAR…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Individualized Programs, Instructional Materials, Learning Motivation
Lovelace, Terry – 1977
This study investigated the use of reading activities in the enhancement of the lives of nursing-home patients. A special reading group was led by a reading specialist in weekly sessions. Patients voluntarily attended the one-hour sessions and read short selections supplied by the reading specialist. Patients ranged in age from 54 to 91. The…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Hearing Impairments, Independent Reading, Nursing Homes
Snow, Nancy Hill – 1978
Oral interpretation students from North Carolina State University (NCSU) have been involved in an innovative reading program with more than 6,000 elementary school children in the area. Reading teams from the university travel to schools to present readings to fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students as part of a program which was started in the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Higher Education
O'Hara, Kathryn – 1973
A study was made to determine which books children borrowed, how many of these were quality literature, and what interests were revealed. This was accomplished by noting all books checked out during a two-month period in one elementary school library, and by designating as quality literature those books listed in the "Children's Catalog." Analysis…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elective Reading, Elementary Education
Wright, E. N.; Reich, C. M. – 1972
During the school year 1971-72, a study of language skills was conducted in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Scores on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test were analyzed for many students in grades four, six, eight, and nine. Students scored at grade level with reference to the United States norms of this test. The vocabulary and reading subsections of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Parent Background, Rating Scales
