Recounts the processes involved in compiling folklore tales for a published collection. (MS)

Reports on a preliterate child's retelling of a story which she heard in an initial session and retold each week for eight weeks. Results suggest a child who is read to can use repeated retelling activity and eventually render the story so close to actual text that advances into reading may occur. (Author/BB)

The reading comprehension of hyperlexic children, mentally retarded children who can read aloud written words better than one would expect from their Mental Age, was investigated in four experiments involving both autistic and nonautistic children. (Author/NH)

Describes a project in which children were given in-depth experiences with a range of quality stories and then were interviewed using a series of open-ended questions to obtain their responses. The project was intended to gain insight into the process by which children make sense and meaning from stories. (HTH)

Explains the use of teletherapy, a technique in which a teacher attempts to solve a child's problem by bringing the class a similar experience vicariously through stories retold from appropriate books. (FL)

Build a rich literature environment that will foster preschoolers' reading comprehension. Emphasizing the importance of children's literature in the preschool classroom, this book shows how to effectively read stories to young children and create a classroom literacy center. Teachers will be able to use literature to help preschoolers understand…

The message of this series of books, "Parents and Children Together," is that parents should get together with their children, talk about stories, and learn together. This book contains several stories that parents and children can read together and talk about in a relaxed way. The book has a companion audiotape. Advice is given in the…

Authors examine three broad purposes for storytelling and reading-to-them experiences as methods that broaden children's listening and reading experiences. (RK)

First graders have demonstrated and identified preferred content in primary reading textbooks in response to single pairs of stories of five content factors." Statistical tables and extensive secondary literature included. (Author/SP)

A study examining readers' ability to infer consequences backward and forward from events described in stories is described. Results show that backward consequence inferences are more reliably drawn during the course of reading than forward consequence inferences. (MSE)

Study examines possibility that certain story constituents are better recalled than others, suggesting a universal, underlying representation for a story by controlling for semantic content of settings, initiating events, internal responses, consequences, and reactions across versions of same story. Results show subjects transformed syntactic form…

Describes how to use a "natural language" technique that makes use of stories that contain predictable language patterns (such as those with words that are repeated or that rhyme) in teaching beginning reading. (MKM)

Emphasizes the oral aspect of language and the writing skills children gain from hearing literature read aloud. (SB)

This article shows how Northrop Frye's theories of literature apply to the tales that children relish and how his theories help teachers to make connections and perceive hidden likenesses. (MM)

Literature is not the reward of learning to read, but the way by which the successful sometimes teach themselves and the way most teachers have neglected. (KS)