It is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is commonly used in instructions, such as, "Please read the text silently before class begins."
Even read silently, Mr. Riley's delicious words roll and roil in the mouth.
They should be read (silently or aloud) and taught along with them.
But each song had unusual details: a suddenly rapturous bridge, or lyrics that seemed as if they were meant to be read silently instead of sung.
He was just a regular customer who came to the bar, enjoyed a beer and a whiskey, read silently, paid in cash, then left.
While Middle Breton poetry, with the exception of carols, was meant to be read silently, another form of literature developed during this period that was to be declaimed to an audience: dramatic literature.
Those who were allowed to read silently were more likely to agree with the statement "The presentation was interesting," and those who read along with an audiovisual commentary were more likely to agree with the statement "I did not learn anything from this presentation".
The one piece of information I wasn't inclined to check, because I have read it often before, was Cohen's reference to Augustine observing Ambrose reading silently and alone, and the suggestion that silent reading was virtually unknown in the middle ages.
What good was a revolution if she couldn't afford to eat? Orobets continued reading silently.
She cites an account of the first time St. Augustine watched St. Ambrose reading silently to himself.
His father, Pierre, an executive at Columbia Records, was reserved, and given to reading silently on the couch for long stretches, but he had adventurous taste in food and movies.
Now, at 20, she reads silently from Dickens, Saramago, Bradbury and authors of her own generation I do not know.
