Now operating in 43 States, the Reading Is FUN-damental'' program stresses motivation (and paperbacks) in developing a love of books. (Editor)

Reports a study comparing the effectiveness of projects representative of compensatory, busing, and non-compensatory programs for inner-city students. (Author/JM)

Purpose of this study was to show the relationship of arithmetic reasoning, critical thinking, fluency of words, fluency of ideas, sensitivity to problems, and general intelligence to literal and critical reading of sixth and eighth grade pupils. (Author)

The essential point of this article is the value of reading comprehension as compared to the value of reading rate. (RK)

Seventeen reading readiness variables appraising a variety of perceptual, learning, cognitive, memory, and language abilities were evaluated as predictors of reading achievement for 94 educable mentally retarded and 78 nonretarded children. (Author)

Results agreed with previous findings that good and poor readers did not differ in mean scan rate when words instead of letters had been used as stimuli. (Authors)

Matched groups of good and poor readers were administered a task that involved making same-different judgments for various combinations of auditory sequential, visual sequential, and visual spatial patterns. (Author)

The article describes the monocular performance of two gifted school girls while reading at page at a glance" rates. It also investigated implications for teaching the partially blind to read more rapidly. (MF)