AUTHOR Shirley, Fehl L. TITLE Professional Values from Reading: The Influence of Reading on the Instructional Methodology of

The purposes of this study were to discover whether teachers can report the ways in which books, stories poems, or articles have changed their concepts, attitudes, or behavior,in relation to reading instruction, to learn the kinds of reading materials which have influenced their reading instruction, and to ascertain the instructional areas which were influenced. An introspective guestionnaire was given to 97 teachers, the majority of whom were primary-level teachers, involved in a two-day conference on reading cues to creativity. Of these teachers, only 17 % reported no professional influence from reading. The majority of the other 83% were more influenced by books than,by periodicals.in their instructional methodology, and more young teachers reported being influenCed by reading than did older teachers. The seven materials mentioned most frequently were, in order: "Teacher " by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, "Teacher " (periodical), "Instructor " (periodical)