SSR

Students and Parents—

Beginning this week we’ll be starting an SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) program in all English 10 classes. At its most basic level, SSR is 15 minutes of silent reading. The students will each choose their own book. Other than obtaining, keeping track off, and reading their books, the students will not have to complete any other assignment for this portion of our class. The goal is that they read more. We will do this for the rest of the year.

Here are a couple of the goals:

• A greater enjoyment of reading, which will hopefully lead to more outside reading
  
• Improved reading comprehension
  
• Confidence as readers and thinkers
  
• Improved ability to focus
  

Will all of these happen for everyone? Nope. But reading never hurt anyone. Right?

Parents, I will do my best to help your student select books that suit his/her interests and needs. We have some books here at the school, but are trying to grow our library. Please help your student obtain books. This may be a trip to the library or the bookstore, if necessary. If you feel inspired to donate reading materials to this program please shoot me an email. That’d be great.

Students may choose any school-appropriate book. Initially, students may also read magazines, graphic novels and comic books. I will also provide each student with a Cypress Charter Staff Picks List that will have our staff’s favorite reads.

Please sign a sheet of paper saying that you read this post. Your student will return these to me and receive homework credit. Email me if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Mr. Wiget