Designed for use primarily by students, teachers, and media specialists, this book discusses the relationship between developmental stages of children's growth and the literature that young people find relevant at various stages of their growth. Part 1 "Young People and Their Books," discusses literature and the nature of the child, the nature of…

In this teaching guide 100 reading activities are suggested to provide ways for children to use their reading skills for enjoyment and to motivate independent reading. Activities are grouped into suggestions for individuals, small groups, and entire classes. Some topics for individual activities are book buttons, taped reading, a book bank, a…

Based on Daniel Fader's philosophy that "pleasure and enthusiasm must be the first (and at times the only) goal of an English teacher," this paper discusses the use of best sellers and current literature in remedial and freshman English classes. Best sellers were used as the basis for class discussion and provided topics for themes in the remedial…

This study surveyed children's expressed reading interests and attempted to determine whether these were related to grade level, sex, race, and socioeconomic level. A total of 784 children in grades four through eight in four elementary schools of Fairfield, Alabama, answered a questionnaire composed of 120 annotated fictitious titles representing…

William Stephenson's ludenic newsreading theory, which asserts that the newsreading situation is not one in which information is passed from a communication source to a receiver, but one in which the individual plays with communication, is examined in this study. Four postulates from the theory are tested in relation to student newspaper demands:…

The 21 Title II reading projects described in this report range from a team-teaching approach in intensive reading for first-grade pupils to a free-wheeling project in a high school where classes stop daily for a 30-minute "Read In." Many of the projects offer suggestions that may be helpful in the selection and evaluation of books and…

The eight booklets included in this packet emphasize the practical techniques which can aid high school students in improving their reading skills through the use of the newspaper. Each guide contains at least one sample news article, followed by activities designed to improve a specific reading skill. Titles of the individual guides are…

The responses to a 40-item multiple choice questionnaire by a nationally representative group of over 1000 twelfth-grade boys and girls, who had been rated either superior or average in writing performance, were analyzed to determine the effects of student attitudes and approaches toward composition and to identify the effects of certain teaching…

A sample of 264 eleventh-graders, stratified by selecting those who performed above selected scores on the Iowa Test of Educational Development to eliminate lack of adequate reading ability as a variable, were tested to determine the relationships between their emotional responses to literature, their ability to judge prose quality, and their…

A study was undertaken to learn if the values of American culture from 1850-1964 were reflected in children's books of that period. Themes in the books were categorized, and the books were related to the historical, political, and social events of their year of publication. Only children's literature, fiction, and "trade" books published in…

A means of adding another dimension to the learning experience, reading for enjoyment, is presented. The author, a reading teacher, found that the most successful approach for her in reaching reluctant readers was to expose students to selected short stories while simultaneously teaching reading skills and writing methods. The reasons for using…

Designed to describe a technique for developing efficient habits for reading the newspaper, this booklet also provides a simplified explanation of how a daily newspaper is produced. The contents include "How to Get the Most Out of Your Newspaper,""A Newspaper Is Many Things,""People at the Paper,""The Front…

This study investigated the relationship between sex-typing of reading and reading comprehension achievement in third grade boys, and sex-typing of reading and reading choice behavior in kindergarten boys. The study also explored the effects of sex and interest of test materials on reading comprehension achievement in third graders. Data were…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between televiewing and the reading interests of seventh grade pupils using 300 television (TV) tie-ins comprised of 18 different titles. The subjects were 253 pupils representing four seventh grade classes from low, middle, and high socioeconomic backgrounds in a suburban setting. The…

This paper summarizes a series of studies undertaken by the United States Information Agency Service between 1970 and 1972 in Bolivia, Great Britain, Argentina, and Lebanon. The purpose of the research was to develop new techniques for analyzing the audiences of USIA periodicals. Survey respondents--all members of USIA priority audience…