Survey question 8: For what reason was SSR implemented in your reading classroom?

• “I found it as a way to get children to read, and I use it as a filler on Fridays after a quiz.”
• “Motivation. Good technique for reading progress.”
• “To get the students to read more material that they have an interest in.”
• “Children need time to read books of choice in reading class.”
• “To encourage reading and to make reading pleasurable and enjoyable.”
• “Helps to develop reading as a life-time skill.”
• “To stimulate free-choice reading.”
• “To illustrate to students the importance of reading. It is the best activity to increase reading achievement.”
• “To encourage and enable students to read complete books -- especially challenged/reluctant readers.”
• “Essential value of the process of sustained concentration of reading/thinking.”
• “To give students time to read the Accelerated Reader [a commercial reading program] books in our library.”
• “I read Nancie Atwell's In the Middle and asked to do that with my class.”
• “To give students time in school to read and get them interested in a book so they would want to continue to read more.”