The importance of parents reading to their preschool age children is stressed.

Surveys what was being read by children in Britain from 1910 to 1950 and what the experts advised teachers, librarians, and children to read. (GT)

Criteria are described for selecting specific issues, events, and documents to be covered in history courses. Teachers should base content selection on basic concepts within the discipline, social needs and values of the class, pedagogical considerations, and the principle of economy in meeting multiple needs. (Author/AV)

School Library Journal book review editors have selected and annotated their choices for the best children's and young adults' books from those books that were submitted for review during 1977 by general book trade book publishers. Included in the annotations are: author, title, publisher, price, and recommended reading and interest levels. (JPF)

A reading program is described which involves individual reading, free choice of books, and individual discussion, essays or summaries of the literature. (CHK)

A study designed to discover reasons for reduction in public library usage by children as they reach adolescence surveyed 122 junior high students to determine where they obtain reading material, what influences selection, and whether location of young adult books in the children's section inhibits use. Ideas for promotion and improved programming…

Provides information that can help educators meet challenges to instructional materials, looks at who the challengers are, discusses the nature of censorship, and suggests ways to handle challenges. (NKA)

Describes "A Guide to Selecting Basal Reading Programs," which was developed to help textbook adoption committees select basal reading texts in elementary schools. Topics discussed include development of booklets that describe various aspects of reading instruction and the role of the guidelines in improving the quality of basal reading…

Based on correlational data, concludes that students who cannot take another person's perspective may have difficulty with inferential comprehension because they cannot identify with a story's characters. (SRT)

Describes the experiences of one recipient of a teacher researcher grant from the National Council of Teachers of English as her research began to inform her teaching and her teaching influenced her research. (SRT)

The author describes the approaches an organization can take to improve its supervisors' performance through training. Three major inhouse approaches for training supervisors are explored: selected reading, on-the-job coaching, and classroom programs. The article also includes a suggested reading list and a sample training reaction sheet. (CT)

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)

In reaction to articles by J. Warnock and W. Bennett, argues that a common background knowledge required for literacy does not depend on specific texts, or a literary canon, rather one needs to know a few facts about some of them. Concludes that cultural literacy is not text-bound. (SRT)

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)

Muses on the attempts that have been made to establish an august list of literary works to be taught in the secondary school and offers a personal opinion of book titles, ninth through twelfth grade, that are defensible on literary quality and are educationally worthwhile. (HOD)