References

Chapter One

Witty, Paul. "Public Is Misled on Meaning of Reading," The Nations Schools, Vol. 56: (July 1955), pp. 35-40.

Espy, Herbert G. "What Specialists Tell Us About Improving the Teaching of the Three R's," The Nation's Schools, Vol. 54: (November 1954), pp. 52-55.

Conant, James Bryant. Recommendations for Education in the Junior

High School Years, p. 21. Educational Testing Service, 20 Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey, I960.

Witty, Paul. Helping Children Read Better. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1950.

Studholme, Janice. "Changes in Attitudes of Mothers of Retarded Readers During Group Guidance Sessions," pp. 84-85. Unpublished Doctoral Project, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1961.

Ibid. pp. 98-100.

Sprout, Janet E. "Using Tape Recordings of Reading Lessons with Parents," Reading for Effective Living, International Reading Association Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3, 1958, J. Allen Figurel, Editor. Published and distributed by Scholastic Magazines, 33 West Forty-second Street, New York 36, N.Y.

Wollner, Mary H. B. "What Parents Should Know About the Retarded Reader," Education, Vol. 78: (September 1957), pp. 14-21.

Chapter Two

Glasgow, Ellen. The Woman Within, pp. 24-25. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.

Repplier, Agnes. Eight Decades, p. 4. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
In all the quotation from children's compositions, the original wording and spelling are retained for the additional insights they may yield with respect to the individual's language development.

The technical term percentile will be used to make the individual's reading status precise. A percentile is the point on a distribution of scores at which an individual stands. For example, a percentile of 50 means that 50 per cent of the other pupils tested made higher scores, and 50 per cent made lower scores. A percentile of 4 means that 96 per cent of the other pupils tested made higher scores, and only 4 per cent made lower scores. A percentile of 95 represents high reading ability for an individual of a given age and grade—only 5 per cent made higher scores than he did, while 95 per cent made lower scores. A child of average mental ability may be expected to read at about the 50 percentile. This way of reporting scores is often used; parents need to be familiar with its meaning.

Repplier, op. cit., p. 4. 6Strang, Ruth and Paul J. Eagan. "Teen-Age Readers," pp. 10-12, National Parent-Teacher, Vol. 55: (June 1961), p. 10.

Strang, Ruth. The Adolescent Views Himself, Chapters 7 and 13. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957.

Witty, Paul. School Children and Television: Summary of the results of ten yearly studies of children's television viewing in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Television Information Office, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N.Y., 1960.

Chapter Three

Arbuthnot, May Hill. "Fostering Personal Development Through Reading Literature," Reading for Effective Living, p. 60. International Reading Association Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3, 1958.

Watson, J. Madison. Independent Fourth Reader, p. 58. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., published in 1872.

Strang, Ruth, Constance McCullough, and Arthur Traxler. The Improvement of Reading (Third Edition), p. 433. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961.

Olson, Willard C. "Seeking, Self-Selection, and Pacing in the Use of Books by Children," The Packet, Vol. 3: (Spring 1952), pp. 3-10.

Strang, Ruth. An Introduction to Child Study (Fourth Edition), p. 49. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959.
Holmes, Jack A. "Personality Characteristics of the Disabled Reader," Journal of Developmental Reading, Vol. 4: (Winter 1961), pp. 111-122.

Ibid.

National Education Association of the United States. Your Child's Intelligence. Washington 6, D.C.: National Education Association.

Chapter Four

McCarthy, Dorothea. "Language Disorders and Parent-Child Relationships," Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, Vol. 19: (December 1954) p. 519.

Overstreet, Bonaro W. "The Role of the Home," Development in and Through Reading. The Sixtieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, Paul Witty, Chairman, Chapter V. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Wibberley, Leonard. "Father's Adventures in Reading Aloud," Children's Book Section, The New York Times Book Review (November 13, 1960), p. 1.

McKee, Paul. A Primer for Parents. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.

« vj^ Time jje should Begin to Read," Carnegie Corporation of New York Quarterly, Vol. 9: (April 1961), pp. 1-3.

McCarthy, Dorothea, op. dt., p. 520.

Chapter Five

Dolch Basic Vocabulary cards. Champaign, Illinois: Garrand Press.

One test frequently used is The Metropolitan Reading Readiness Test published by the World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York.

Oppenheim, June. "Teaching Reading as a Thinking Process," The Reading Teacher, Vol. 13: (February 1960), pp. 188-193. 4Stauffer, Russell G. "Productive Reading-Thinking at the First Grade Level," The Reading Teacher, Vol. 13: (February 1960), pp. 183-186.

Strang, Ruth. "Question: What Is the Place of Oral Reading in the Total Reading Program?" The Instructor, Vol. 70: (May 1961), p. 49.
Arbuthnot, May Hill. "Fostering Personal Development Through Reading: 1. In the Primary Grades," Reading for Effective Living, International Reading Association Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3, 1958, edited by Allen Figurel. Scholastic Magazines, 33 West Forty-second Street, New York 36, N.Y., c. 1958.

Strang, Ruth, and Eagan, Paul J. "Teen-Age Readers," National Parent Teacher, Vol. 55: (June 1961), pp. 10-12.

Chapter Six

Mearns, Hughes. Creative Power, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958, pp. 36-37. 3 Van Riper, C. Helping Children Talk Better, Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1951, p. 46.

Elfert, William. "An Exploration of Sixth-Grade Pupils' Acquisition of Word Meanings Through Classroom Instruction." Unpublished doctoral project, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1960.

Thorndike, E. L., and Barnhart, Clarence L. Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1952.

Pickarz, Josephine A. "Getting Meaning from Reading," Elementary School Journal, Vol. 56: (March 1956), pp. 306-309.

McCullough, Constance M. "Reading in the Intermediate Grades," Development Through Reading, Chapter XVI. The Sixtieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, Paul A. Witty, Chairman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Witty, Paul. "Answers to Questions about Reading," National Parent- Teacher, Vol. 49: (September 1955), pp. 10-13.

Chapter Seven

Conant, James B. Education in the Junior High School, Princeton, New Jersey: Educational Testing Service, 1960, p. 21.

Strang, Ruth and Eagan, Paul J. "Teen-Age Readers," National Parent Teacher, Vol. 55: (June 1961).

Strang, Ruth. The Adolescent Views Himself, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957, pp. 145-147.

Burton, Dwight L. Literature Study in the High Schools. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1959.
McCullough, Constance M. "Context Aids in Reading," The Reading Teacher, Vol. 11: (April 1958), pp. 225-229.

Reading Grades 7-8-9. Curriculum Bulletin No. 11. Board of Education, New York City, 1959.

Femald, Grace. Remedial Techniques in the Basic School Subjects. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943.