This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of a six-months school entrance age difference on reading, mathematics, and language achievement in primary school children; (2) relationships among reading attitude, self-concept, and reading achievement of academically talented intermediate grade students; (3) listening comprehension; (4) the immediate influence of protein on reading achievement; (5) the effect of student mobility on the time required for placement at three basal reading levels; (6) the trope density of social studies textbooks; (7) the effects of ECRI on reading achievement; (8) the relationship between children's concept of story and reading comprehension of narrative prose; (9) first grade students' original narratives as a reflection of schema for story and of the relationship between schema for story and reading readiness and reading achievement; (10) teacher influence on the reading attitudes and reading behavior of seventh grade language arts students; (11) readability and the cognitive-conceptual aspects of reading; and (12) the effects of children's achievement in reading and attitude toward reading resulting from parent-introduced reading games. (FL)