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SSR with
Interventions
Book available from Libraries Unlimited:
SSR with Intervention - A
School Library Action Research Project
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Articles |
Workshop &
Presentation Resources* |
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"Keys to Successfully Sustaining
an SSR Program." Co-authored with Dr. Jack Humphrey.
Library Media Connection,
vol. 26, no. 6, March 2008, pp. 30-32.
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"Promoting an Addiction
to Reading."
School Library Media Activities Monthly, vol. XXIV, no.
2, October 2007, pp. 24-26.
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“Sustained
Silent Reading with Intervention Project”
NetWords, Winter
2006, pp. 6-7.
Readings for Further Understanding:
Marshall, Jodi Crum. "Study
Guide: Are They Really Reading?" Stenhouse Publishers, 2002. |
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Book available from
Libraries Unlimited (also available through
Amazon.com):
SSR with Intervention- A
School Library Action Research Project (ISBN13: 9781591584605)
Professional Review
“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 research alongside all the teachers; so,
Leslie and a few other teachers huddle. They worry that sustained silent
reading (SSR) has been given a bad 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
"Customer
Review"
"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!" -Amazon.com (posted August 12, 2007)
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Reading/Thinking/Learning/Living
Collecting
the Data: Templates & Resources for SLMS
Information Inquiry,
Literacy & Learning @ Your Library
Student
Inquiry in the Research Process
SSR with Interventions
Virtual SLMS Resource
Center
Leslie's Vita
Worth Quoting
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