SSR

=SSR: Rationale & Practice=

= = ~Nancie Atwell, //The Reading Zone//
 * "**I make time everyday for our students to curl up with good books and engage in the single activity that consistently correlates with high levels of performance on standarized tests of reading ability. And that is //frequent, voluminous reading//. A child sitting in a quiet room with a good book isn't a flashy or, more significantly, marketable teaching method. It just happens to be the only way anyone ever grew up to become a reader.**"**

~Kelly Gallagher, //Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It//
 * "**The stakes are high. If those students who enter schools linguistically impoverished--thirty-two million words behind--do not read extensively, they will never catch up. This bears repeating: struggling readers who do not read voraciously will never catch up.**"**
 * "**If our students are to have any chance of discovering reading flow, if they are to have any chance to discover what it is like to come up for air while reading, if they are to have any chance of becoming lifelong readers, they will need what all readers need when they read: access to great books and large doses of uninterrupted time to read them**."**

"Here is a simple fact: Wide, abundant reading is the surest route out of poverty and the limitations that impose themselves on the less literate. //Reading changes everything//." "When will we learn...that //there are no shortcuts//? School improvement is impossible without ensuring that students read abundantly--for hundreds of hours every year." ~Mike Schmoker, //Focus//