This seventh annual annotated bibliography of trade books reflects the direct choices of approximately 10,000 children from among more than 500 books published in the United States in 1980. (FL)

Suggestions from five contributors deal with the following topics: (1) helping the child who stutters to read fluently, (2) the vowel-consonant-vowel controversy, (3) motivating the reluctant reader, (4) building self-concept through a story wall, and (5) dictionary study. (FL)

Reviews "Happily Ever After," a reading readiness program that is designed to help those children who lack many of the concepts and abilities assumed by most readiness programs. (FL)

Discusses various documents in the ERIC system that suggest ways that reading teachers can work with children of divorced parents. (FL)

Discusses the problems facing educators and children in developing nations, who must often use instructional materials prepared in English, depicting a lifestyle that is alien to them, and presented to them in books which are unavailable outside of the classroom. (FL)

Recommends using literature to increase elementary school children's interest in reading and to provide them with forms and patterns for writing. (FL)

Presents an overview of research findings concerning children's storytelling and then considers a number of issues that need to be addressed, including the importance of children's expectations about what a story is and whether this "sense of story" is important in learning to read. (FL)

Argues that allowing students five seconds to think about a question both before and after they answer it improves the quality of the answers they give. (FL)

Contends that the cloze procedure is an effective technique for use in teaching specific reading skills as well as a test of rate and comprehension. (FL)

Reports on a reading program that showed parents of underachieving inner-city primary school children how to help their children improve their reading performance. Concludes that the parents not only helped their children but also improved their own reading ability. (FL)

Advocates a psycholinguistic view of the reading process and a language experience approach to reading instruction. Offers suggestions to improve students' reading performance. (FL)

Presents a step-by-step method for teaching difficult function words to slower readers. (FL)

Contends that effective communication builds parent support for a reading program and offers practical suggestions on how to improve parent school communication. (FL)

Fifty picture storybooks appearing on the "Children's Choices for 1979" list were analyzed to discover what story structures children preferred. Concludes that children prefer storybooks with episodic plots involving confrontation with a problem, and characters who have opposing points of view or who experience the same thing in contrasting ways.…

Describes a study that examined the classroom behavior and reading achievement of elementary school children placed on the Feingold food additive elimination diet. Concludes that children who remained on the diet for six months became less impulsive but did not raise their reading scores significantly. (FL)