"The complaint was that Sustained Silent Reading hasn't been "research proven" to
be beneficial to improve students reading skills."
This claim comes from NCLB literature. There has been a lot of written about the
'research-based' agenda for NCLB looking only at
(or only shows) the research that supports the POV of those promoting it.
It will take some digging to find all the arguments about how NCLB use of research,
but digging in Ebsco, ERIC, and some teacher
journals can be fruitful. As well as WWWEDU, Higher Ed and other email lists. I
think there have been some critical pieces in
magazines like Atlantic, maybe even Time/Newsweek. Also, look into PPI's 21st
Century Schools Project
(http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_sub.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecID=900001) and Eduwonk
(http://www.eduwonk.com/). Not unbiased, but
usually well researched and written.
And of course, the reading program providers (AKA $$$$) jumped on that contention
to help promote purchase of their product.
So there's a reason why we should be developing a generation of critical consumers
of information.
Robert Eiffert, Librarian
Pacific Middle School, Vancouver WA
Pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
Beiffert at egreen wednet edu
Beiffert at Comcast net
N2Books wrote:
>
> I had a 4th grade teacher come to me a few minutes ago almost in tears. =
> She has been challenged on her 30-40 minutes of SSR daily. She does do =
> direct reading instruction, reads to her children daily, and also has =
> them read out of textbooks in addition to the SSR. =20
>
> The complaint was that Sustained Silent Reading hasn't been "research =
> proven" to be beneficial to improve students reading skills.
> The students are for the most part a year or so above level in reading. =
> They read in their zone of proximal development for AR. They read =
> their AR book during SSR. They also have a wealth of books to chose =
> from the classroom in addition to the AR books.
>
> I told her I would search tonight for research pro and con about using =
> SSR in the classroom to improve reading. Everything I remember points =
> to SSR as being beneficial. I can't ever remember hearing cons but I =
> want to be fair.
>
> If you've been down this road and could point me to some articles, I'd =
> appreciate the help.
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