SSR: The Most Important Thing You Do All Day

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SSR The Most Important Thing You Do All Day

• Make a positive impact on your academic and
  personal success

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Questions You Might Have

• What is SSR?
• What is the benefit to me?
• What do I need to do?
• How does each day work?
• How will I earn a grade?
• How is it going to help me?

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What is SSR?

• An acronym forSustained Silent Reading.
• A reading intervention strategy used in schools
  all over the nation.
• A planed, structured time to read a book of your
  choice, fiction or non-fiction, where reading
  strategies are practiced and discussed.
• A time for sharing about books with classmates
  and your teacher.
• A quiet period of time for only reading.

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Other Names for SSR

• SSR Sustained Silent Reading
• USSR Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading
• DEAR Drop Everything and Read
• FUR Free Uninterrupted Reading
• SQUIRT Sustained Quiet Uninterrupted
• Reading Time
• IRT Independent Reading Time
• WART Writing and Reading Time
• FVR Free Voluntary Reading

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What is the Benefit to Me?

• Learn reading strategies in mini-lessons during
  SSR time.
• Practice those strategies in groups, pairs, and
  individually.
• Gain a deeper understanding of yourself as a
  reader and to read so you understand the story
  and the authors purpose.
• Own a set of strategies that you can use in your
  other classes and when you read for pleasure.
• Talk to others about your book and listen to what
  others are reading and understanding.
• Evaluate your reading formally and informally.
• Get to know your own reading style and needs.

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What Do I Need To Do?

• Bring a book you are interested in and one that
  you will read for the entire SSR time.
• Read, read, read.
• Participate in mini-lessons.
• Practice strategies.
• Apply strategies when you read.
• Write your experiences as reflections, responses
  to explain what you know and how it worked.
• Give honest feedback when you are asked about
  your reading.

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I will teach you READING STRATEGIES that good
readers use to understand what they read

• Use prior knowledge before, during, and after
  reading to glean understanding
• Ask questions before, during, and after reading
  to clarify understanding and focus their reading
• Visualize to deepen their understanding of the
  text
• Determine what is important
• Infer to predict, draw conclusions, make
  judgments, and form unique interpretations from
  the text
• Summarize what is read
• Determine what is important
• Connect new information with existing knowledge
  to create original ideas and interpretations and
  make critical evaluations
• Fix reading trouble spots by consciously and
  independently applying appropriate strategies.

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What Is The SSR Protocol?

• Daily
• Bring a book to class.
• When the clock announces that class begins, you
  should begin reading or shortly after getting out
  your materials for the day.
• Read, read, read until time is up. Practice
  strategies.
• Weekly
• Learn reading strategies during mini-lessons by
  listening, taking notes, and practicing.
• Apply reading strategies by completing activities
  on your BookMark or on paper.
• Write reflections that express your experience.

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How Will I Earn A Grade?

• Participation
• Daily reading or not reading
• Practicing strategies
• Final Tests
• Showing what you know and can do
• Reflections
• Showing your growth and explaining your
  understanding of a reading strategy

• On a Book Mark, a note taking tool, complete
  daily requirements for practicing the strategy.
• A completed a reflection, a written assignment so
  that I can evaluate how well you practiced the
  strategy, what you know about it, and how you
  were able to apply the strategy to gain a better
  understanding of reading and yourself as a
  reader.
• The Book Mark, the reflection, and your daily
  participation will become ¼ of your language arts
  grade.

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Why Take Time To Read (SSR)?
It is the most important thing you do all
day. Because reading is a skill. Ask any sports
coach, the band director, the speech coach, the
key-boarding teacher, a dance teacher, or a chess
champion, What do I do to be good? Practice.
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More ReasonsResearch Shows that SSR

• Makes you a better reader.
• Makes you a better writer.
• Improves your vocabulary.
• Students learn an average of 45 words with each
  novel they read.
• Word meaning is picked up 10 times faster by
  reading than intensive vocabulary instruction.
• Improves your spelling.

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Research also shows..

• that students who read more demonstrate markedly
  higher achievement
• Students in the top 5 read 144 times more than
  students in the bottom 5.
• Students in private schools read 67 more than
  public school students.
• On national testing, students who scored in the
  top 25 spent 59 more time reading than do
  students who score in the bottom 25.

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Review Questions With a partner, answer these
questions

• What is SSR?
• When is SSR?
• What do I need?
• When does it start?
• What will I be doing during SSR?
• Do I have to do book reports and writing
  summaries?
• Is it graded?
• How will it help improve my reading?