Comments on the teaching of literature in two-year colleges and suggests ways to interest community college students in reading literature. (MKM)

After explaining why disadvantaged youth have little interest in reading, this paper prescribes eight techniques to increase student interest in reading, including reading aloud with and to the students, acting out the reading material, using the newspaper, and advertising reading around the school. (RL)

Discusses ways in which reading can enrich adults' lives, aid in problem-solving, and provide information on many vital issues; shows how adults can develop plans for purposeful reading. (GW)

Looks into the need for children's books to deal with emotions, specifically those concerning sexuality. (MB)

Describes the use of survival learning materials to teach reluctant readers and presents a sample survival kit on the topic of cars. (MKM)

Proposes a classroom model for developing an interest in reading for pleasure and increasing literary competence among intermediate or advanced second-language students. The model employs a reading syndicate web through which students read collectively literary texts and share their individually acquired knowledge and appreciation to enhance the…

Preservice teachers' needs as readers were considered during the development of a program intended to motivate these teachers to spend part of their summer reading education trade books, resulting in a marked increase in the number of trade books and books in general the teachers read. (CB)

Reports that librarians in Nebraska find the Golden Sower Award program to be a positive force in influencing children's reading habits and awareness of literature. (FL)

States that teachers need to understand the appeal of novels that teenagers prefer to read and analyzes a popular romantic novel, "Flowers in the Attic." (DF)

Reports the following information from a survey of secondary school students: the amount of leisure reading undertaken by students; the type of literature read; the effect of personal-, school-, and home-related variables on the variation in amount of time spent on leisure reading; students' sources of literature; and students' attitudes toward…

Describes reading materials for gifted children ages birth to nine years that correspond to the following characteristics of the gifted: vocabulary, curiosity, sensitivity, beauty, and humor. HOD)

Lists 105 books selected by children as the best of those published in l984. (FL)

Notes shortcomings in research efforts intended to discover children's picture book preferences. Describes a research approach adapted from the field of anthropology, in which the researcher conducted observations and interviews as children respond to picture books in natural classroom settings. (EL)

Explores the change in attitudes toward young adult literature since it developed in the 1960s, and considers the future of the genre. (EL)

Concludes that reading interests of children were similar across achievement levels. Offers tips to help low-achievers choose recreational reading materials. (FL)