Explore: Silent Reading

Sustained silent reading (SSR) is a form of school-based recreational reading, or free voluntary reading, where students read silently in a designated

Silent reading is reading done silently, or without speaking the words being read. Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words)

tactile signals (as in the case of braille). Reading is generally an individual activity, done silently, although on occasion a person reads out loud

distinction allows for a narrower usage of the term "sight-reading" to describe the silent reading of music without producing sound through an instrument

Subvocalization, or silent speech, is the internal speech typically made when reading; it provides the sound of the word as it is read. This is a natural

sustained silent reading (SSR) or free voluntary reading; and is used in both the first- (L1) and second-language (L2) classroom to promote reading fluency

shorter fixations and fewer refixations when reading. Research published in 2019 concluded that the silent reading rate of adults in English for non-fiction

Speed reading is any of many techniques claiming to improve one's ability to read quickly. Speed-reading methods include chunking and minimizing subvocalization

used in Paul Saenger's 1997 book Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading, although Saenger himself attributes it to Insup & Maurice Martin Taylor

Reading comprehension is the ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. Reading comprehension