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Peer reviewedLevine, Steven G. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Recommends using the technique of uninterrupted sustained silent reading to improve student attitudes toward reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading
Peer reviewedValeri-Gold, Maria – Journal of Reading, 1995
Describes how Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading has been successfully incorporated into college reading classes with developmental learners as an authentic method of assessing and improving students' attitudes toward reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedCline, Ruth K. J.; Kretke, George L. – Journal of Reading, 1980
Although a junior high school sustained silent-reading program showed no effect on student reading achievement, significant differences on four reading attitudes between students in that school and students in schools without such a program were considered tangible evidence supporting continuation of the program. (JT)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedAllington, Richard L. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Strategies are suggested for shifting the emphasis of remedial reading instruction from isolated skill instruction to reading in context. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Reading, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1981
Practical suggestions from teachers include activities for defining new English words, using free association and writing, stocking the sustained silent reading library, and using the compare/contrast strategy for word recognition. (MKM)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Recreational Reading, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBortnick, Robert; Lopardo, Genevieve S. – Journal of Reading, 1973
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedLopardo, Genevieve; Sadow, Marilyn W. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Discusses the method of repeated readings as an approach to improve the comprehension and decoding skills of disabled secondary and postsecondary school readers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedFarrell, Ellen – Journal of Reading, 1982
Reports that junior high school students who spent an entire school year in a formal sustained silent reading program made dramatic increases in reading ability and interest. (AEA)
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedMinton, Marilyn Joy – Journal of Reading, 1980
Suggests reasons why a sustained silent-reading program failed to work at a San Diego high school. (JT)
Descriptors: Grade 9, Negative Attitudes, Program Evaluation, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1990
Presents four brief articles which describe (1) ideas for teaching vocabulary through cooperative learning; (2) ways to include discussion in sustained silent reading; (3) an artistic prewriting activity; and (4) the effects of background television viewing on studying. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Prewriting
Peer reviewedPetre, Richard M. – Journal of Reading, 1971
Discusses the development and accomplishments of a reading program in more than 50 Maryland schools in which all regular activities some to a halt and teachers and students participate in 35 minutes of uninterrupted free reading each school day. (MB)
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Paperback Books, Reading Improvement, Reading Interests
Peer reviewedHeathington, Betty S. – Journal of Reading, 1979
Suggests a strategy for developing reading habits in the middle school which is based on Grover C. Mathewson's five motives for reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Motivation Techniques, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1987
Discusses (1) strategies that make learning disabled adolescents independent in subject area classrooms, (2) the use of medieval rhetoric to help modern students expand their writing, and (3) students' opinions of sustained silent reading. (NKA)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Independent Study, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1982
Offers seven teaching ideas concerning aids for adult nonreaders, remedial reading in content areas, study skills workshops, video games, and vocabulary projects. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Content Area Reading, Educational Games
Peer reviewedRichek, Margaret Ann – Journal of Reading, 1987
Outlines five variations of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity that can help students become independent readers of narrative text. (NKA)
Descriptors: Fiction, Independent Reading, Learning Strategies, Literary Devices
