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Williams, Rihana Shiri; Ari, Omer; Santamaria, Carmen Nicole – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
Recent investigations challenge the construct validity of sustained silent reading tests. Performance of two groups of post-secondary students (e.g. struggling and non-struggling) on a sustained silent reading test and two types of cloze test (i.e. maze and open-ended) was compared in order to identify the test format that contributes greater…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Investigations
Melton, Elizabeth Jane – 1993
This study evaluated the practice of sustained silent reading (SSR) on the reading comprehension and word recognition skills of 12 third and fourth grade students with learning disabilities. The intervention involved 10 minutes daily of SSR over a 6-month period in the context of 30 minutes daily of reading instruction from a learning support…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Coley, Joan D. – 1981
The Reading Enrichment/Achievement Demonstration Project (READ) has provided continuing studies, since 1976, of sustained silent reading programs that use paperback books. The 1980-81 Project READ involved 1,100 young people in the juvenile justice system who attended 25 alternative schools and community-based programs. The public school portion…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Junior High School Students, Nontraditional Education