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Dully, Melanie – 1989
A study investigated whether 19 at-risk fifth-grade students would benefit from using Sustained Silent Reading. Ten students were exposed to 15 minutes of Sustained Silent Reading at least four times a week over the course of a school year, while nine students were not. All students were administered a pre- and post- self-concept inventory and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades
Nardella-Rodriguez, Josephine – 1991
A study examined whether oral, silent, or choral reading would affect reading comprehension. Subjects were 22 heterogeneously grouped third grade students. Two groups of 11 subjects were assigned to each of the following three samples during a three week period: (1) oral reading; (2) silent reading; and (3) choral reading. To analyze results,…
Descriptors: Choral Speaking, Comparative Analysis, Grade 3, Oral Reading
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
Download full textMinichiello-Schmidt, Katherine – 1998
A study hypothesized that auditory input does not increase the comprehension of students. Forty Basic Skills English students in a suburban high school were identified for this study. They were grouped according to class section and assigned randomly to treatments. Two of the sections read narrative and persuasive/argument texts silently and were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Armstrong, Noreen; Campos, Julie; Johnson, Barb – 2001
This report describes a program for increasing reading fluency through the implementation of leveled books. The elementary students of the three targeted regular education classes exhibit low fluency rates which impedes them from becoming independent readers. Evidence for the existence of the problem includes words read per minute on a grade level…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
McDaniel, Ruth Rogers – 1983
A psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscue substitutions and of silent reading cloze substitutions was used to compare five dimensions of the oral and silent reading processes: grammatical function, syntactic acceptability, semantic acceptability, meaning loss, and correction. Subjects were third and sixth grade students with high,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Everett, Irene – 1987
A preliminary study investigated whether regular periods of sustained silent reading (SSR) would positively affect verified silent reading comprehension scores for eighth grade students. The hypothesis tested was that students allowed 15 minutes of recreational reading (reading self selected material for enjoyment) five times a week for three…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8
