It is always heartwarming to an old educator to see that old programs like SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) are still used (or have been initiated) in schools. It takes so little time and effort on the part of school officials and faculty to schedule SSR during the school week, and results such as the ones presented in this blogger’s post are always a pleasure to read. If more schools instituted SSR, I am certain that the district’s reading scores would increase dramatically in a very short time. Now, if only we could institute something similar for math and science…
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Shhhhh….We’ve been very, very quiet in grade 9 this year with our Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) academic experiment in the college prep 9th grade class. 77 students were asked to read a minimum of eight (8) independent reading books of their choice as part of the curriculum, and to facilitate reading, students were provided 20 minutes twice a week (40 mins total/week) of SSR. Responses to the independent books were recorded later on blogs or presented in class.
The inclusion of independent student choice texts with the time made available for SSR meant a reduction in the number of whole class reads; four texts remained in the curriculum: Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Speak, and selections from The Odyssey. Classroom libraries were augmented with high interest texts (used books in class) with support from the school library and Overdrive software to allow for a wide selection by…
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