Deplores requirement of traditional book reports and encourages spontaneous student reactions to books read as a preferable alternative. (SW)

Maintains that traditional summer reading assignments discourage students' pleasurable responses to reading; based on a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 29, 1969). (RD)

Special section commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of National Children's Book Week, November 16-22.

Outlines one junior high school's method of improving students' reading habits through a book fair, a book exchange club, and a weekly read-in. (MM)

Reviews ERIC materials pertaining to the reading interests of children. (FL)

Reveals that there are definite factors fifth- through eighth-grade students consider when choosing books for personal reading, including (1) peer recommendations, (2) movie and television tie-ins, and (3) information provided on the book jacket. (FL)

Lists and appraises books favored by middle school readers as revealed in the most recent "children's choices" poll conducted by the International Reading Association. Proposes a similar poll for older students. (JL)

Reviews the Choose Your Own Adventure series designed by Bantam Books to engage children in reading and writing that is exciting and unusual. (FL)

Suggests that the current teaching process causes children to lose their love of reading, does not give them enough practice in language, keeps them from remaining engaged and active in the learning process, underemphasizes the value of talk, and is often artificial. (JL)

Discusses research related to the relationship between interest in reading materials and reading achievement. (FL)

Records interviews with three secondary school English teachers who became building principals. (AEA)

Discusses the written responses of children, who were taught to read using library books, to the stories they are reading and to reading in general. (HTH)

Reports that second-grade students in reading groups that used materials without pictures had faster mean reading times than students who read the same materials with pictures, but did not differ from them in comprehension or achievement. (FL)

Presents a study of adult reading habits based on time use. Indicates a decline in daily newspaper readership, particularly in the past 10 years, but a revival in magazine and book reading for the same period. (JMF)