The Origin of Silent Reading
I made my video by using Video Scribe. I truly have a love-hate relationship with Video Scribe. I really love the end result but I usually run into several technical difficulties. The audio is very glitchy but unfortunately was the best recording I could get. Like many of you, I initially did not know how I would make a ten minute video and in the end, found it difficult to put all of my thoughts and ideas into a ten minute video.
If you view my video, thank you for taking a few minutes! It was an interesting journey into silent reading and I hope I was able to do it justice.
UPDATE 07/08/15:
I finally got the audio to record and match the video after Plan B, C, D, E, F! 🙂 Thanks to a fellow ETEC 540 student who brought the issue to my attention! I owe her a Double Double…or two.
My script can be found here:
My video can be found here: The Origin of Silent Reading
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Hi Allison,
I lost your voice over at about 6:10, at the start of the section on Human rights. I could still hear your music but nothing else you were saying! At first I thought you making a point about us reading silently, but then it continued to the end! I don’t know if this was from your end or mine, but I thought I should let you know. I love the Video Scribe! I find it to be very engaging for me as I am a visual person! 🙂
Good job!
Jennifer
Ahhhhhhh thanks for letting me know!!!
That would have been brilliant but alas, not intended! 😉
It’s all there now! 🙂 Great job!
I especially like the end quote that you have there about oral reading being important in the beginning but silent reading important for a lifetime . It is interesting in primary grades to watch the progression to silent reading. It is not something that comes easily to some children! When my oldest son first started to read silently, I worried a lot about his comprehension. In fact, he just finished reading all the Harry Potter books just after turning 9 years old and I thought there could be no way he understood what he had read. I was always, being the teacher-mom, asking questions to check! But then he began talking to me about it a lot more, and I realized he was totally getting it!
Over the years, there have been a lot of different names put on silent reading program in the classroom. I’ve been in schools that have used D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read), SSR (Sustained Silent Reading), USSR (Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading) and more currently Read to Self (a component of the Daily 5 program) Whatever it’s called, it involves students reading silently to themselves, hopefully with books that are at a good level for them. I decided to do a little research to find out what has been concluded. This article summarized some findings:
http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=47da10be-b66e-4d7d-bd1f-3c7eb48a83b4%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&hid=124