Knowledge Base
The scientific evidence base on how we learn to read and how to best teach reading has been growing and converging for over 40 years.
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Recommended Books
We have compiled a list of books we know you will find informative and useful.
- Equipped for Reading Success (2016) Book by David Kilpatrick – Find Here
- Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching – Find on Amazon
- Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World – Find on Amazon
- Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It – Find on Amazon
- Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) – Find here
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain – Find on Amazon
- The Reading Glitch: How the Culture Wars Have Hijacked Reading Instruction-And What We Can Do about It – Find on Amazon
- Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read – Find on Amazon
- Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print –Find on Amazon
- The Science of Reading: A Handbook – Find on Amazon
- Making Sense of Interventions for Children with Developmental Disorders: A Guide for Parents and Professionals – Find on Amazon
- Learning to Read: The Great Debate by Chall Jeanne S. (1995-06-01) Hardcover – Find on Amazon
- Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition): Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated – Find on Amazon
- Teaching Students with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, OWL LD, and Dyscalculia – Find on Amazon
- Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers, Third Edition – Find Here
- Speech to Print Workbook: Language Exercises for Teachers Third Edition, New edition – Find Here
- Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World – Find on Amazon
- Reading Assessment: Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition – Find on Amazon
- Language for Life, by Lyn Stone – Find Here
- Reading for Life, by Lyn Stone – Find Here
- Spelling for Life, by Lyn Stone – Find Here
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Recommended Audio
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Millions of kids can’t read well. Scientists have known for decades how children learn to read but many schools are ignoring the research. They buy teacher training and books that are rooted in a disproven idea. Emily Hanford investigates four authors and a publishing company that have made millions selling this idea.
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