I'll send it to you off list. It's all in my book but I get that you need it now. As a matter a fact, the NRP came up with a book called The Voice of Evidence in Reading Research. In it, members of the NRP wrote chapters translating the findings of the NRP. the book was published by the NICHD-- It was dedicated to Reid Lyon. In it, NRP contributor Steven Stahl. has a chapter translating the work on fluency. The research for SSR came in the fluency section of the NRP. Stahl actually recommends 30 minutes of sSR with books of the kids' own choice each day-- THAT is the federal research/
What's more, Stahl discusses the experimental research of Elley who did what are called the "book flood studies" a large longitudinal series of studies with English Language Learners. The results were that classrooms that were "flooded" with high interest books, and in which teachers received some training in shared reading (this involved having kids discuss stories aka literature groups) the kids improved in reading and vocabuluary. What's more, an unexpected result was that they improved in writing too. Much of his work focused on reading aloud, shared reading with kids but it included SSR too. In other words, a balance of approaches using real literature. I can tell you what happened with the NRP and that section on Fluency and how that quote got pulled out and distributed to discourage SSR but that is a long story. I will find the hard numbers and the quotes and send them to you. I hate to sound like I'm always just promoting my book-- but it has all of this in it. It has quotes, numbers etc in plain English that you can actually download, but it also has that research translated into plain English-- with how to teach those methods. Let me get my file. I will cut and paste and send you quotes off list. You will be amazed at what the federal studies actually show, I was just stunned when I finished that book. I had a really strong sense of parts of the federal research that had been misrepresented-- but when I put it all together including the big federal study on minority children and youth-- it was incredible how much their own evidence converged from so many areas to support reading as a complex act that kids should actually engage in-- IN school, as part of a reading program. Sometimes I feel like just screaming-- we have been so blindsided and bamboozled by this research. All any publisher or any one anywhere has to say is, "The research says... This is research based.." and most teachers and administrators do not have the time or in some cases the expertise to sift through and crosscheck and see what the heck is true and what we are being lied to about. That's what I did. I went through it all. Sometimes I feel as if I'm the only person who really knows what's in those studies. On Saturday, June 2, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Bill Roberts wrote: > >> Bill- the research overwhelming supports what Nancie advocates. I have >> an entire section of my book devoted to the research supporting SSR -- >> from federal studies-- as well as the research supporting reading >> aloud >> to students. >> > > Elaine, > Any chance you could offer some of the research on SSR? > > According to the NRP: > > "The Panel determined that guided repeated oral reading has a > significant > and positive impact on word recognition, reading fluency, and > comprehension > for students of all ages. However, the Panel was unable to conclude > that > independent silent reading, as the only type of reading instruction, > improves reading fluency." > > Silent reading can't be measured. Oral can (let's not get started on > fluency again!). I have a principal who likes hard numbers to back up > my > strategies, and I can't find any hard numbers on SSR. That's was one > of my > issues with READING ZONE...no actual numbers backing up her claims. > She had > a couple of pages on how the research used for the NRP was incomplete, > but > saying something isn't working ain't the same as saying something else > works. > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
