| 8. | Schon, Hopkins, and Vojir, "The Effects of Special Reading Time." |
| 9. | Cline and Kretke, op. cit. |
| 10. | Davis, op. cit. |
| 11. | Carver and Liebert, op. cit. |
| 12. | See e.g. Janice Pilgreen, The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Maintain a Sustained Silent Reading Program. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. |
| 13. | Burley, op. cit. |
| 14. | Krashen, 2000, op. cit. and Shanahan, op. cit. |
| 15. | Burley, p. 158. |
| 16. | Langford and Allen, op. cit. |
| 17. | National Reading Panel, op. cit. p.3-26. |
| 18. | Manning and Manning, op. cit. |
| 19. | National Reading Panel, op. cit. p. 3-26 |
| 20. | Holt and O'Teul, op. cit.; National Reading Panel, p. 3-25. |
| 21. | Reutzel and Hollingsworth, op. cit.; National Reading Panel, p. 3-24. |
| 22. | Reutzel and Hollingsworth, op. cit, p. 41. |
| 23. | For a review, see Stephen Krashen, The Power of Reading, (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1993). |
| 24. | Richard Wright, Black Boy, (New York: Harper and Row, 1966). p. 275. |
| 25. | Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Books, 1990). |
| 26. | National Reading Panel, op. cit, p. 3-27. |