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Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Suggests that teachers try "mumble Reading" with beginning readers who have difficulty understanding what reading silently is. (JM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Silent Reading
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1981
Describes "Booktime," a modified form of sustained silent reading that produced positive results with first-grade poor readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Low Achievement, Primary Education, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedKaisen, Jim – Reading Teacher, 1987
Advocates a supplementary reading program for kindergartners and first graders that is a combination of modified sustained silent reading and Booktime, after an investigatory study showed that, although highly thought of, SSR was difficult in practice in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. (NKA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Grade 1, Instructional Materials
