[MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell

[Bill Roberts]

> Bill- the research overwhelming supports what Nancie advocates. I have
> an entire section of my book devoted to the research supporting SSR --
> from federal studies-- as well as the research supporting reading aloud
> to students.
>

Elaine,
Any chance you could offer some of the research on SSR?

According to the NRP:

"The Panel determined that guided repeated oral reading has a significant 
and positive impact on word recognition, reading fluency, and comprehension 
for students of all ages. However, the Panel was unable to conclude that 
independent silent reading, as the only type of reading instruction, 
improves reading fluency."

Silent reading can't be measured.  Oral can (let's not get started on 
fluency again!).  I have a principal who likes hard numbers to back up my 
strategies, and I can't find any hard numbers on SSR.  That's was one of my 
issues with READING ZONE...no actual numbers backing up her claims.  She had 
a couple of pages on how the research used for the NRP was incomplete, but 
saying something isn't working ain't the same as saying something else 
works.

Bill