This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: relationships among attitudes, intelligence, and reading achievement; the purposes and processes of reading as described by elementary school children; evaluating volunteers in reading programs; the effects of parent training in communication skills on the reading attitudes of children; the elementary school principal as instructional leader of the reading program; wordless picture books; the effect of pictures on reading comprehension; automatic level word recognition training and reading achievement; the effect of a reading center on reading scores; the ability of kindergarten children in phoneme analysis tasks; comprehension models in reading; the relationships between art concepts and reading readiness and mathematics; the effect of printed materials on beginning reading; an analysis of oral reading miscues of first grade students; sex role stereotyping in reading skills materials; teacher knowledge of reading and student achievement; the effects of adjacent-to-text activities on the development of reading comprehension skills; and strategies for reading comprehension using the cloze procedure. (MAI)