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Valeri-Gold, Maria – Journal of Reading, 1995
Describes how Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading has been successfully incorporated into college reading classes with developmental learners as an authentic method of assessing and improving students' attitudes toward reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement

Lee-Daniels, Sonya L.; Murray, Bruce A. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Describes the author's voluntary reading program in her second-grade classroom. Describes how her basic Drop Everything and Read program needed to be added to and tinkered with to keep students interested and motivated: paired reading and discussion, visual reading records, and praise and occasional rewards. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes
Elson, William H.; Runkel, Lura E. – Scott, Foresman and Company, 1925
This textbook is third in a series of readers and has unique provision made for silent reading. A distinctive feature of this Reader is the unique provision made for Silent Reading. As in the "Child-Library Primer" and "Book One," (ED623655) the stories have been selected for their child-interest and wholesome ethical content.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Sustained Silent Reading, Textbooks, Reading Material Selection

Watson, Dorothy J. – English Education, 1978
Describes a successful sustained silent reading program which involved junior high students in identifying and remedying their own miscues. (DD)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Miscue Analysis, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Improvement
Kefford, Roderick – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes a reading scheme in which seventh-grade students engage in sustained silent reading for one class period per week and the reading gains made by the students in the first six months of the year. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction

Benedict, Gary – Reading Improvement, 1982
Describes a program designed by educators in the Mukwanago, Wisconsin school system that used a variety of methods to encourage student reading, including a district-wide sustained silent reading day and a multiweek parent involvement program. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement

Cline, Ruth K. J.; Kretke, George L. – Journal of Reading, 1980
Although a junior high school sustained silent-reading program showed no effect on student reading achievement, significant differences on four reading attitudes between students in that school and students in schools without such a program were considered tangible evidence supporting continuation of the program. (JT)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits

Hazemi, Louise – English Quarterly, 2001
Describes the development of the course Pageturner 9 - Advanced Literacy. Hopes to create a course that allows grade 10 students to inherit the desire/joy/fun of reading still displayed by the author's grade 8 students. Concludes that when adults/teachers show an interest in students' reading worlds, they encourage students to keep reading. (SG)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Attitudes

Yoon, Jun-Chae – Reading Improvement, 2002
Investigates the overall effect of Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) on attitude toward reading and identifies the moderator variables of SSR on it. Suggests that providing a fixed period of time for students to read materials of their own choosing either for pleasure or for information facilitates their attitude toward reading. Supports the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Meta Analysis, Reading Attitudes

Robertson, Chris; And Others – Journal of Research in Reading, 1996
Investigates whether the rhetoric of uninterrupted, sustained, silent reading was evident in primary classrooms (in England) where the practice was professed to operate. Finds that, while the value of a quiet reading time was generally acknowledged, many models operated under the guise of "uninterrupted sustained silent reading," models…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Reading Research

Anderson, Cynthia – Reading Teacher, 2000
Recommends Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) in grades 2-12 to improve students' reading and to teach them to love to read. Outlines rules for SSR, and offers notes to the teacher on its implementation. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits

Cho, Kyung-Sook; Krashen, Stephen – Reading Improvement, 2001
Describes how a single positive experience in self-selected reading of children's books resulted in a profound change in attitudes toward recreational reading among Korean teachers in English as a foreign language. Concludes that after the experience, nearly all teachers reported they were interested in using sustained silent reading in their…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Korean
Perks, Kevin – Principal Leadership, 2006
Noble High School, a large school located in rural southern Maine, embraces the concept of smaller learning communities, and its more than 1,100 students are heterogeneously grouped into teams. Although Noble was recently cited as a model of rural education (NASSP, 2004), its students nevertheless struggle to develop important literacy skills. On…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High Schools, Literacy Education, Educational Change
Vitolo, Danielle – 1999
The purpose of this study was to determine if a paired reading program had a significant effect on first grader's reading achievement. Fifteen students in the experimental treatment were randomly paired to read stories. The study took place over a period of 10 weeks in a small suburban school district. Fifteen other students in the control…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
McHugh, Caroline – 1989
To investigate the effects on students' reading attitudes and interests of sustained silent reading as opposed to reading aloud, a study divided 50 urban third graders into two groups, with 25 in each group. One group of students engaged in an 8-week period of sustained silent reading which was teacher directed before and after the reading…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Oral Reading, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others