Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1983

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

Committee Chair

Doris E. Jakubek

Second Committee Member

William Floyd

Third Committee Member

William Lacey

Abstract

A six week course in children's literature was taught to ten alternative tenth through twelfth grade students. The purposes were to determine if the secondary student's attitude toward and fluency in reading were improved by working in easy and pleasurable material. The Estes Attitude Scale and an informal reading inventory were administered to the students at the start and end of the course. No statistically significant difference was found in the attitude scale, but reading fluency increased significantly.

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