The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there
was any change in reading achievement level of elementary school children
during the summer vacation, and whether or not identifiable factors
existed that may have accounted for these changes.
Children in the first through fifth grades in three...
National statistics indicate that as many as 23
million adults in the United States are illiterate and
another 40 million lack literacy skills necessary to
function effectively or on more than a narrow basis in this
society. People without literacy skills or who have only
marginal reading ability find themselves...