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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Reading is Fun-damental Program. – 1977
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is a national, nonprofit organization designed to motivate children to read by making a wide variety of inexpensive books available to them and allowing the children to choose and keep books that interest them. This annual report for 1977 contains the following information on the RIF project: an account of the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Books, Childrens Literature, Community Involvement
Download full textNational Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This statement, prepared by the National Council of Teachers of English, addresses the increasing problem of censorship in the public schools in the form of pressure to restrict or deny students access to certain books or periodicals deemed objectionable by individuals or groups on moral, political, religious, ethnic, racial, or philosophical…
Descriptors: Censorship, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
VSE Corp., Alexandria, VA. – 1981
A study conducted to determine user acceptability of cassette braille systems addressed three concerns: (1) user reaction to the basic concept of cassette braille, (2) the determination of the strong and weak features of the cassette braille machines currently available, and (3) the determination of those features of braille machines which would…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Neuman, Susan B. – 1982
A study was conducted to determine whether students' preferences for reading or for viewing television were related to the quality of their leisure reading choices. The families of 198 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were asked to complete television and reading logs for four weeks. Sixty-six students were identified from this sample as…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Intermediate Grades, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
Gillespie, John T., Ed.; Gilbert, Christine B., Ed. – 1981
Intended for use as a tool in evaluating and expanding library collections and as an aid for giving reading guidance to children, this annotated bibliography contains over 13,000 recommended titles for readers in preschool through grade 6. The titles are listed alphabetically by author under a variety of subject areas, including the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Michigan Women's Commission, Lansing. – 1973
Serving as the basis for the first administrative complaint alleging sex discrimination in textbooks to be filed under federal law, the findings presented in this report are based on an analysis, made by parents and citizens in a midwestern city, of 12 texts in the elementary reading program of a major publisher. Generally, the findings are stated…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, Males, Reading Material Selection
Bernstein, Joanne E. – 1978
Adults who wish to help children come to terms with loss from death, divorce, and other separations have a good ally in books. While not a complete cure, bibliotherapy can help children cope with loss by engaging the emotions and freeing them for conscious and productive use. Numerous books have appeared for children to read, enjoy, and use in…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature
O'Connor, Marie E. – 1980
This paper discusses the role of reading in the lives of high school students and discusses research that suggests ways to motivate adolescents to read. Research reviewed in the paper indicates that the major factors that influence adolescent reading are gender, age or maturity, intelligence, and socioeconomic background. The summary of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, High School Students, Literature Reviews
Valentino, Beth Anne M. – 1978
A study was undertaken (1) to determine if a relationship existed between preadolescents' levels of reading comprehension as defined by T. C. Barrett's Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension and their levels of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg's stage sequence and (2) to discover if females demonstrated higher levels of reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Moral Development
Goldhor, Herbert – 1981
This study was conducted in l978/79 to test the hypothesis that the circulation of books put in a prominent display location would increase because of the tendency of adults to select books in public libraries by browsing, rather than looking for specific titles. The circulation of all copies of a sample of ll5 titles from the adult individual…
Descriptors: Adults, Bibliographies, Exhibits, Library Circulation
Indiana State Teachers Association, Indianapolis. – 1979
A variety of resource documents and articles are included in this professional improvement packet that is designed to assist teachers and administrators in reducing the conditions under which censorship might occur. The documents presented are: the Indiana code laws concerning textbook adoption; the American Library Association's library bill of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech
Reading in Specific Content Areas, Developing a Profile of Problems in Reading in Your Content Area.
Aukerman, Robert – 1979
Teachers can improve students' content reading by preparing reading profiles in terms of student abilities, instructional material selection, and content learning objectives. These profiles should contain the following elements: orientation questions that give the teachers their present bearings; the identification of the readability levels of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment, Reading Ability
THOMAS, VES – 1967
A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF BIBLIOTHERAPY INDICATES THAT MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED BEFORE THIS DISCIPLINE CAN DEVELOP INTO A MORE EXACT SCIENCE. DEFINITIONS OF BIBLIOTHERAPY VARY FROM SIMPLY "THE USE OF READING IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK" TO DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARIAN AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE DOCTOR AND PATIENT.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Bibliotherapy, Educational Psychology, English Instruction
Hill, Phyllis M., Ed. – 1977
This publication is designed to assist in the choosing of materials for the teacher's library by providing a list of selected materials recommended by many national professional organizations. The first section of the book is devoted to the subject of establishing a school library. Discussed here are the topics of concept and scope of the library,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Educational Media
Diederich, Paul B. – 1977
This paper describes procedures that can be used in individual schools to evaluate various aspects of their English programs. The major portion of the paper discusses schools' ability to foster voluntary reading, in the face of the widely reported decline in such reading after grade eight. Specific suggestions are given for bridging the gap…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Program Evaluation
