Book Recommendations

Shifting the Balance

6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading Into the Balanced Literacy Classroom

Jan Burkins and Kari Yates

A Fresh Look at Phonics

Wiley Blevins

Equipped For Reading Success

David Kilpatrick

Speech to Print

Louisa Cook Moats

Reading in the Brain

The New Science of How We Read

Stanislas Dehaene

Know Better, Do Better

David Liben &

Meredith Liben

Choosing and Using Decodable Text

Wiley Blevins

Uncovering the Logic of English

Denise Eide

Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf

Brain Words

How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

J. Richard Gentry &

Gene Ouellette

Making Sense of Phonics

The Hows and the Whys

Isabel Beck


Bringing Words to Life

Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown and Linda Kucan

The Writing Revolution

Judith Hochman &

Natalie Wexler


The Knowledge Gap

Natalie Wexler

How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction

Sharon Walpole & Michael McKenna

Reading Above the Fray

Julia Lindsey