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Silent Sustained Reading, SSR
Summer Reading List 2005

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Silent Sustained Reading, SSR

Twice a week, the NCCES community devotes advisory time to reading. Every student and teacher reads silently for 20 minutes.

Purposes for SSR

  • To increase the time students read.
  • To increase the amount of reading that students do.
  • Inspire/foster a love for reading.
  • Increase the time students read for pleasure and information.
  • Value and build on language, interests, and experiences students bring to school.
  • Learn about each other as readers.
  • Build reading confidence and independence.
  • Send implicit message that personal reading is a worthy act.
  • Provide time in the weekly NCCES academic schedule to support a community of readers.

Some benefits:

  • Students increase their personal vocabulary.
  • Students more often share and discuss texts read.
  • Students become more familiar with a wide variety of texts.
  • Students improve their fluency.

What is essential?

  1. Students read to themselves for a limited amount of time. It’s quiet.
  2. Each student selects his/her own book, magazine, or newspaper (appropriate for a school setting). No changing during the reading period is permitted. All materials must be chosen before SSR period begins.
  3. Students and teachers keep a simple record which captures the reading during the SSR time. This record is used for student self reflection, to help us know if our purposes are being met, and as a communication tool between student and teacher. A copy will go in the student’s portfolio.
  4. SSR is part of advisory and is part of the advisory effort grade.



Summer Reading List 2005

Advisory Books:

7th Grade--Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
8th Grade--Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
9th Grade--Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
10th Grade--The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
11th & 12th Grades--Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America, edited by Susan Richards Shreve


Choice Books:
7th Grade---The Misfits by James Howe

8th Grade---The Secret Life of Bees or A Separate Peace by John Kowles

9th Grade--Choice Novels:
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
Peace Like a River by Enger
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

10th Grade Choice Novel--A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

11th & 12th Grade Choice Novels (Choose One)--
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

 
 

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