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Books – Research – Websites - Blogs – Webinars – Events
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Webinars Hosted by Jennie Smith-Brock
Books about Reading Instruction
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Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us About How to Teach Reading,
by Diane McGuinness
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Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties,
by David A. Kilpatrick
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Phonics and the Resistance to Reading,
by Mike Lloyd-Jones
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Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read,
by Stanislas Dehaene by Stanislas Dehaene
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Sound at the Speed of Light: How Many Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It,
by Mark Seidenberg
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Why Our Children Can’t Read and What We Can Do About It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading,
by Diane McGuinness
Research
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A Seven Year Study of the Effects of Synthetic Phonics Teaching on Reading and Spelling Attainment,
Rhona S Johnston and Joyce E Watson, 2005
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Getting ready for reading: Early phoneme awareness and phonics teaching improves reading and spelling in inner-city second language learners,
Morag Stuart, British Journal of Educational Psychology (1999), 69, 587–605.
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Dale Willows (University of Toronto) discusses her research on Jolly Phonics in Canada.
Note the very strong effects with ELL students.
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National Reading Panel Report – Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction,
2000.
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Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading (Rose Report),
2006.