I struggle with the Silent Sustained Reading as well . . . and I was
wondering what you all thought about it at the upper levels. I teach a
section of 7th grade and 9th grade English. In both classes I'm expected to
teach reading and writing in 55 minutes--we don't get a period of "reading"
and a period of "writing". I would love to have my students silent read,
but I always feel as though I'm "giving up" valuable writing and group
literature time. I do teach with a teacher who has her students read all
period on Fridays . . . but when I add that up, that's almost 7 weeks of
silent reading in class! The added frustration is that students aren't
reading outside of school, even when there is a grade attached--so I feel as
though for some of these students, the only time they are reading is when
it's "carved out" of class time. As I recall, the research says that for
"struggling readers," the best thing to have them do is read. But when you
only have 1 period to do reading and writing, I feel as though using
"reading time" to do reading strategies is more valuable. But I'm
interested to know what other middle/upper level teachers are doing about
outside reading and SSR?
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From: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:01 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [MOSAIC] Silent Sustained Reading
As teachers, do?you think that Silent Sustained Reading
improves?individual reading scores on standardized tests??
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