SSR with Intervention: A School Library Action Research Project

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 168 pages
• Published by: Libraries Unlimited February 28, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1591584604
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591584605
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review
Providing a resource for school media specialists and teachers, this book presents guidelines and advice for implementing sustained silent reading (SSR).While geared toward a middle-school audience, the forms and ideas included can also work with higher and lower grade levels as well.Leslie Preddy presents findings from a research study in Indiana, as well as ideas and suggestions for implementation in other schools. With guidelines for both school media specialists and teachers.[t]his book can help any school wishing to encourage reading in students through classroom and library cooperation and collaboration. With extensive repoducible items, bibliography, and index, this is a useful resource for any school considering, currently using, or evaluating an SSR plan. The detailed table of contents enables any reader to quickly locate the appropriate area of the book, encouraging its ability to serve as a reference rather than a straight read.Recommended.Library Media Connection

My stand-up cheer for Leslie B. Preddy is wow, awesome, great! This book is a wonderful model. Here is a teacher-librarian who is challenged by her principal to do a piece of action reseach alongside all the teachers; so, Leslie and a few other teachers huddle. They worry that sustained silent reading (SSR) has been given a terrible name by the National Reading Panel, and they want to test it for themselves on their teen students. They invent a simple method in which their students have response journals of what they read.The results? Various measures send up a green flag--and higher test scores. Leslie's book gives full details, the story, and various forms to use to duplicate her program. But the biggest measure is, teacher-librarians make a difference, and here is the evidence! Now for the rest of us "Go and do thou likewise" keeps ringing in this reader's ear. This book is a keeper that offers an action plan.Teacher Librarian

Preddy, a library media specialist (LMS) in Indianapolis, describes a successful action research pilot project, Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) with Interventions, designed and implemented by a team of educators at the middle school at which she works. Following an overview of the literature on SSR, the text provides a detailed discussion of the Indianapolis experience, guidelines for middle school teachers interested in developing their own SSR with Intervention project, the role of the LMS in enhancing and accelerating a classroom and school reading culture, sample generic writing prompts for a variety of reading materials, and a section of reproducible forms and templates.Reference & Research Book News

Product Description
Library Media Specialist Leslie Preddy and her colleagues show how the school library media specialist and the classroom teacher can be a winning team, working together to solve an instructional problem and raise reading scores to reach Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). They offer a Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) with Intervention program complete with the action research, tools, and the knowledge necessary to successfully implement the program in any classroom. The book begins with a review of the literature on SSR. The greatest portion of the text shares the action research experience and explains how to easily implement the simple, yet successful, reading program. Illustrations, student samples, forms, lists of writing and response prompts, and an index are all included.

Reader Reviews
High school students and reading? Frequently too many other activities take our students away from the unabashed pleasure of reading for FUN. Leslie B. Preddy has found a way for all teachers...not just English, to bring the joy of reading back to kids. Ms. Preddy begins with the foundations...the "why" (if you will) of how this project came about. She then continues with practical and USABLE ideas for the classroom. I "slowed" down in requiring my students to "read for enjoyment," because so many other lessons SEEMED more necessary for those all-important high-stakes tests. NOT ANY MORE! These lessons WILL help all students achieve. Ms. Preddy will remind why you became a teacher in the first place...for the great joy of seeing a child "get it." This book should be required reading in colleges and in faculty study groups! Comment | | (Report this)