It is important for students to choose books that are at their instructional reading level. A future reading specialist investigated what types of books first-grade students choose, and if they choose books at their reading level during self-selected reading. She undertook a literature review and developed procedures for conducting the study. Data…

This book addresses the task of matching books to students' reading levels, or book leveling. It assists teachers in making informed choices about appropriate leveling systems, recommends which books can be used in instruction, and suggests how book text level and student reading abilities may correspond. The book will help classroom teachers and…

Micronesia is an ethno-geographical grouping of over 2000 islands spread out over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean and includes the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam,…

This paper describes the use of unbiased stories featuring children with disabilities as a part of presenting a multicultural perspective in elementary schools. It emphasizes that the inclusion of a multicultural perspective will help teach social acceptance rather than separation, and laments that current children's books about disabilities tell…

Efforts of the Constitutional Heritage Club (CHC) and several supportive groups to censor the book and magazine collections of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County are discussed. (NH)

The books children with low vision need and want are in the libraries: the problem is in identifying them. As a partial step toward meeting this need a selective list of 78 large print titles is given. (Author/NH)

Today's children cannot be pigeonholed into the molds that were satisfactory in the past. Granted, there are still scores of innocents around who will find something on the shelves regardless of its relevance. This article is concerned with the other type of child. (Author/NH)

Surveys the Reading Is Fun-damental Program (RIF) in Cleveland, Ohio, which makes it possible for disadvantaged children to select and own books. (RW)

Critical reading and effective self-expression are essential to analyzing, evaluating and discussing the literature of all subjects--biology, sociology, philosophy, history etc. (NH)