Literacy Links and Recommended Reading
The following links give helpful information:
- Orton-Gillingham Academy
- International Dyslexia Association
- Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read
- The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
- The Brain from Top to Bottom (language system in the brain)
- What Is Structured Literacy? (International Dyslexia Association Infographic)
- 5 Brain-Based Reasons to Teach Handwriting in School
- Millions Have Dyslexia, Few Understand It NPR: All Things Considered, November 28, 2016 broadcast
- Children of the Code
- At a Loss for Words (APM Reports, what's wrong with whole word approach)
- Narrowing the Third Grade Reading Gap (EAB) (PDF)
- Can We Afford to Ignore the Science of Reading? TED Talk with Melissa Hostetter
- The Science of Reading: Evidence for a New Era of Reading Instruction Laura Stewart, The Reading League (PDF)
- The Great Reading Rethink Belinda Luscombe, Time, August 2022 (PDF)
- Science of Reading PD by Topic Brett Stevens (Padlet)
- Sold a Story (APM Reports, How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong)
Recommended Reading
- Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz
- English Isn't Crazy by Diana Hanbury King
Other Resources
