Silent Sustained Reading and Literacy
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Silent Sustained Reading, Voluntary Reading, literacy, Struggling or Successful Readers, AccountabilityAbstract
Research has pointed to different outcomes for Silent Sustained Reading in classrooms. One view is that students who enjoy reading for its own sake also read more books and develop better literacy skills in reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and writing. The second view is that without accountability, students’ reading skills cannot be gauged. Furthermore, it does not improve struggling students’ comprehension and fluency. The third view is that there is no benefit to SSR. The author maintains that in today’s mandated curriculum aura, where reading has taken a backstage and test- taking skills have dominated the classroom time, it is important that to develop life-long learners, SSR be allowed to be used as deemed appropriate by the classroom teacher empowering both teachers and students.
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