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Summers, Edward G. – 1979
A study of 1,242 children in 20 fifth, sixth, and seventh grade classes in Richmond, British Columbia, was undertaken over a seven-month period to discover the effects of a sustained silent reading program (SSR) on the students. Ten classes and the four schools they were in participated in the SSR group and ten classes selected from five other…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedWheldall, Kevin; Entwistle, Judy – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1988
Discusses four studies of the Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading method designed to determine whether teacher modeling of appropriate reading behaviors would consistently lead to increases in student reading activity. Concludes that this method provides an effective environment in which students model teacher behavior to improve attentiveness…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Development, Modeling (Psychology)
Peer reviewedMcCracken, Robert A. – Journal of Reading, 1971
Descriptors: Class Size, Reading Materials, Reading Programs, Secondary Schools
Peer reviewedRisser, Barbara – Clearing House, 1979
A junior high reading teacher explains how she got teachers and students involved in a daily school-wide reading period. (SJL)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Junior High Schools, Program Development, Reading Programs
Direct linkRalston, Nicole C.; Benner, Gregory J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Caniglia, Cyndi – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2009
Building on research showing the interdependence of language skills and reading proficiency, this study examined the effects of using the "Language Arts" strand of the "Reading Mastery Signature" 2008 series program as a supplement to non-Direct Instruction reading programs with English Language Learner (ELL) students.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Oral Reading, Language Arts
Ashby, Jane – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
Recent eye movement experiments offer preliminary evidence that skilled readers activate word-level prosodic information when silently reading sentences. This paper reviews the role of eye movements during reading as well as the preliminary evidence for prosodic processing. A new experiment examines whether prosodic processing differs for high and…
Descriptors: Syllables, Silent Reading, Sentences, Eye Movements
Ashby, Jane; Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Two eye movement experiments examined whether skilled readers include vowels in the early phonological representations used in word recognition during silent reading. Target words were presented in sentences preceded by parafoveal previews in which the vowel phoneme was concordant or discordant with the vowel phoneme in the target word. In…
Descriptors: Vowels, Silent Reading, Sentence Structure, Eye Movements
Radcliffe, Rich; Caverly, David; Hand, James; Franke, Deanna – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Middle school science teachers report using textbooks regularly although these textbooks have been criticized for not following standards-based principles for concept learning, and student reading achievement has been stagnant for 20 years. Effective strategic reading instruction has been documented for middle school students but few teachers use…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Silent Reading, Textbooks, Reading Achievement
Blake, Mary E. – Teacher, 1979
An experienced teacher presents guidelines for starting Sustained Silent Reading in a classroom, including explaining the program to the students and dealing with those who forget their books, disrupt the class, or fidget. A list of teacher background readings is included. (SJL)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Primary Education
Download full textBuswell, Guy Thomas; Wheeler, William Henry – Wheeler Publishing Company, 1923
This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Materials, Silent Reading, Grade 1
Buswell, Guy Thomas; Wheeler, William Henry – Wheeler Publishing Company, 1923
This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Silent Reading, Reading Materials, Grade 2
Buswell, Guy Thomas; Wheeler, William Henry – Wheeler Publishing Company, 1923
This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Materials, Silent Reading, Grade 3
Rudd, J. C. – Engl Lang Teaching, 1969
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Improvement, Reading Processes, Silent Reading
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Michael – Reading Horizons, 1977
Presents a model depicting the interrelationship of reading and writing. (JM)
Descriptors: Reading, Relationship, Silent Reading, Theories
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Syntax
