Recommended Books About Reading

The following are recommended books for parents and educators on reading development and instruction. This list is by no means exhaustive, but is intended to provide you with a starting point for increasing your knowledge. The links are to Amazon.com where you can find more information about each book.

• A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior from Birth to Age 6
• Beginning Literacy With Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School
• Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print
• Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
• Book Buddies
• Building Your Baby's Brain: A Parent's Guide to the First Five Years

• Choosing Books for Children: A Common sense Guide
• Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment
• Games for Reading: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Read
• Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children
• Help America Read: A Handbook for Volunteers
• Hey! I'm Reading!: A How-To-Read Book for Beginners
• The Howard Street Tutoring Manual

• I Hear America Reading: Why We Read--What We Read
• Learning to Read: Lessons from Exemplary First-Grade Classrooms
• Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
• Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
• New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children
• No Easy Answer: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and At School
• Off Track: When Poor Readers Become Learning Disabled
• Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

• Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum
• Phonics from A to Z
• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
• Questioning the Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement with Text
• Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parents' Guide
• The Read-Aloud Handbook (4th Edition)
• Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read
• Reading Difficulties: Instruction and Assessment
• Reading Instruction That Works, Second Edition: The Case for Balanced Teaching
• Reading Team: A Handbook for Volunteer Tutors, K-3

• So What's A Tutor to Do?
• Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers
• Starting Out Right: A Guide To Promoting Children's Reading Success
• Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference During The Early Years
• Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
• Teaching Reading Sourcebook: Kindergarten Through Eight Grade (Core Literacy Training Series)

• Ways with Words : Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms
• What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs
• Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom
• Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
• You Make the Difference: In Helping Your Child Learn

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