A study examined the extent to which third and fourth grade classroom teachers utilized commonly recommended practices for the use of children's literature. A 39 item questionnaire was constructed and then mailed to 600 third and fourth grade classroom teachers in eight urban and suburban public school districts in Southern California and Northeastern Ohio. Two hundred nineteen teachers returned the questionnaires, for a response rate of 37%. Results showed that children's literature was being used in 37% of the classrooms surveyed. While 16 questionnaire items tended to occur regularly, 23 items tended to occur rarely. Independent silent reading tended to occur daily, whereas reading aloud to students tended to occur on a weekly basis. The majority of items that occurred regularly tended to occur on a monthly basis. (A copy of the Children's Literature Survey is attached.) (JK)