The Science of Reading: a top-level primer

Endnotes to the primer: (1) articles and documentaries; (2) books; (3) research.

Also, see websites like The Reading League (https://www.thereadingleague.org), where the video's definition of the science of reading comes from, and Reading Rockets (https://www.readingrockets.org). For EdNC's literacy coverage, visit us at https://www.ednc.org/category/literacy/

(1) Articles

Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (2008)

EdWeek's coverage of reading instruction is helpful and found here: https://www.edweek.org/reading-litera...

Hanford, Emily: Hard to Read: How American schools fail kids with dyslexia.

Hanford, Emily: Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to read?

Hanford, Emily: At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers.

Hanford, Emily: What the Words Say: Many kids struggle with reading -- and children of color are far less likely to get the help they need.

Moats, Louisa: Of ‘Hard Words’ and Straw Men: Let’s Understand What Reading Science is Really About

Moats, Louisa: Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do

(2) Books

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties by David Kilpatrick

Language At The Speed of Sight by Mark Seidenberg

Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene

Proust And The Squid by: Maryanne Wolf

Speech to Print by Louisa Moats

(3) Research

Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print.

Castles, A., Castle, K., Nation, K. (2018). Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (2003). The early catastrophe: The 30 million word gap. American Educator.

Kennedy, M. M. (1997). The connection between research and practice. Educational Researcher.

Liberman, A. M. (1997). Why is speech so much easier than reading?

Lonigan, C. J. (2003). Development and promotion of emergent literacy skills in children at risk of reading difficulties.

Lyon, G. R. (1998, March). Why reading is not a natural process. Educational Leadership.

Lyon, G. R. (2002). Reading development, reading difficulties, and reading instruction: Educational and public health issues. Journal of School Psychology.

McCardle, P., & Chhabra, V. (2004). The voice of evidence in reading research.

Moats, L. C. (1995). The missing foundation in teacher preparation. American Educator.

National Reading Panel. (2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction.

Partnership for Reading. (2003). Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read. Kindergarten through grade 3.

Ravid, R. (1994). Practical statistics for educators.

Rayner, K., Foorman, B. R., Perfetti, C. A., Pesetsky, D., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2001). How psychological science informs the teaching of reading. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

Reyna, V. (2004). Why scientific research? The importance of evidence in changing educational practice.

Shavelson, R. J., & Towne, L. (2002). Scientific research in education.

Snow, C., Burns, S., & Griffin, P. (Eds.). (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children.

Stanovich, P., & Stanovich, K. (2003). Using research and reason in education.

Torgesen, J. K. (2002). The prevention of reading difficulties. Journal of School Psychology.

Torgesen, J. K. (2002). Lessons learned from intervention research in reading: A way to go before we rest.