A READABILITY STUDY OF JUNIOR SCHOOL LIBRARY PROVISION RELATED TO CHILDREN'S INTERESTS AND READING ABILITIES

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Summary. An analysis of the library reading material of a junior school was related to the reading abilities and interests of its pupils. The school's resources of 4,793 library books were classified into 50 categories in two roughly equal groupings, Fiction and Information. A 5 per cent sample, stratified by category and placement, was measured by a modified Fry Graph. Two hundred and fifty‐eight children were assessed by Schonell Silent Reading Tests A and B and completed a questionnaire. The findings indicated that the readability levels of most of the books were considerably higher than the reading ages of the majority of the pupils. The results yielded a significant negative correlation between the children's professed interests and the subject matter of library non‐fiction reading material.

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