The Ssr Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program

By Janice L. Pilgreen

Book Overview

It comes as no surprise that the students who read often are the students who read well. How, then, can we get the rest of our students reading? Is it enough to set aside in-class time for sustained silent reading? Or should we set up a more structured program-one that ensures all of our students are engaged in their reading and that they do so on a regular basis for the pleasure of it? Janice Pilgreen knows from hard-won experience that it takes a lot of time, effort, and know-how to put an effective sustained silent reading program into practice. In The SSR Handbook , she's done most of the work for you, not only providing an overview of the underlying research, but also reviewing eight essential factors that ensure a program's success. Pilgreen explicitly identifies these factors, then explains in detail how to incorporate them into your own program. The book also features lots of resources to help you implement your program, including support organizations, book clubs, classroom magazine subscription titles/addresses, favorite young adult series books within various genres, comic book titles, lower-level reading books for adolescents, and publishing company names, addresses, and phone numbers. Best of all, there are reproducible student and parent inventories, reading records, and other forms to assist you with the process. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of what SSR is, why it's important, and how to implement it in their own schools and classrooms. Just as important, they will be motivated and energized enough to want to develop new programs or modify existing programs right away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867094621
• ISBN13: 9780867094626
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 10

Customer Reviews

This is THE Guide

The SSR Handbook, is a compilation and description of 8 guidelines for conducting an effective Sustained Silent Reading Program. If your school is considering implementing or altering your existing SSR program, don't consider doing it without this guide, if you are using an SSR program in your class buy this book.The suggestions and guidelines that are included are common sense based, but it is a common sense that makes you want to say, "Why didn't I think of that?". Success does have a formula and based on the common sense nature of this book, this is the formula.

An Indispensable Resource

For anyone involved in the teaching of reading, this book gives you the information needed to help students become confident readers. I followed these guidelines in my classroom and I am ecstatic at the results. My students attitudes towards reading have improved as well as their comprehension, writing, and spelling, just like Pilgreen stated it would. I recommend this book and method to all.

An Indispensable Resource.

For anyone involved in the teaching of reading, this book gives you the information you need to help students become confident readers. I followed these guidelines in my classroom and I am ecstatic at the results. My students attitudes towards reading have improved as well as their comprehension, writing, and spelling, just like Pilgreen stated it would. I recommend this book and method to all.