• ​Closing the Vocabulary Gap
  Quigley, Alex (2018). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• The Cognitive Foundations of Reading and Its Acquisition: A Framework with Applications Connecting Teaching and Learning
  Hoover, W., & Tunmer, W. (2020). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It. Seidenberg, M. (2017). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students.
  Harris, K. Graham, S., Mason, L., Friedlander, B. (2008). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
  Wolf, M. (2007). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention.
  Dehaene, S. (2009). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• Reading Fluency: Understand, Assess, Teach (2019). Hasbrouck, Jan & Glaser, Deborah. (Amazon.com)
• ​Teacher’s Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
  Saddler, B. (2012). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
• ​Thinking Reading: What Every Secondary Teacher Needs to Know about Reading
  Murphy, James & Dianne (2018). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)

The Hot topic of phonemic awareness

Highly Recommended Video

Many teachers have shifted to explicit instruction of phonemic awareness using methods that teachers think are “science of reading” yet do not align to the science! In this video, Dr. Mark Seidenberg presents his concern about popular BUT inappropriate methods of teaching phonemic awareness. PLEASE watch! Note that he suggests inappropriate instruction may DELAY students! (Be aware that measuring the phonemic awareness skills of advanced readers will not provide accurate results. They are already reading and their PA may now be unconscious – they’ve moved on to more advanced skills! Don’t delay their progress by giving them unnecessary instruction!)

More on Phonemic Awareness:​

They say you can do phonemic awareness instruction “in the dark”, but should you? A critical evaluation of the trend toward advanced phonemic awareness training. ​Learn More

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Differentiation:

• ​Differentiated Literacy Instruction: Boondoggle or Best Practice? Learn More
• ​Individualizing Teaching in Beginning Reading. Learn More

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Writing:​

• Changing How Writing is Taught. Learn More
• POW Plus TREE Equals Powerful Opinion Essays. Learn More
• ​Sentence Combining. Learn More
• ​Teaching elementary school students to be effective writers: A practice guide. Learn More
• ​The Effects of Peer-Assisted Sentence-Combining: Instruction on the Writing Performance of More and Less Skilled Young Writers. Learn More
• ​Using Self-Regulated Strategy Development to Support Students Who Have “Trubol Giting Thangs Into Werds”. Learn More
• ​Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools. Learn More
• ​Writing a True Sentence: Developing Syntactical Sophistication through Sentence-level Writing Instruction. Learn More

General:

• ​Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert. Learn More
• ​Morphemes Matter: A Framework for Instruction. Learn More
• ​Read About It: Scientific Evidence for Effective Teaching of Reading. Learn More
• ​The Massive Impact of Literacy on the Brain and its Consequences for Education. Learn More
• ​Video on How the Brain Learns to Read – Dr. Stanislas Dehaene.

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Assessment

• ​Understanding and Assessing Fluency (Jan Hasbrouck). Learn More
• ​Fluency Norms Chart (Hasbrouck & Tindal 2017 Update). Learn More

• ​Florida Center for Reading Research
• National Center on Improving Literacy
• ​The Reading League
• ​Online Etymology Dictionary
• ​Mini Matrix-Maker Home Page
• ​thinkSRSD