Resources

Why Phonics and Decodable Text? A Webinar for Librarians, Parents and Teachers
How the Brain Learns to Read - Prof. Stanislas Dehaene


         






    Reporting by Emily Hanford, both current and excellent:

    - What's wrong with how schools teach reading.

    - Suggestions regarding what to do if your child’s school is not teaching reading correctly

    See this website for more from Emily Hanford

    Language at the Speed of Sight:

    - How We Read, by Mark Seidenberg, Professor at the University of Wisconsin

  1. - Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, by David A. Kilpatrick,  Associate Professor of Psychology for the State University of New York, College at Cortland
  2. - National Reading Panel
    1. Understood
    2. LD online
    3. Child Mind Institute
    1. The International Dyslexia Association
    2. The Reading League
      1. Decoding Dyslexia
      2. Dyslexia Help
      Tools4Reading.com
      Tools4Reading: Where Do I Begin?

        Literacy Statistics

        Literacy Statistics that Whole Phonics is dedicated to addressing:

        • Two-thirds of our nations’ children do not enter the fourth grade reading at a proficient level, and 82% of those children are from low income families.
        • One-third of dyslexic students become so frustrated in school that they give up and leave high school without graduating.
        • Four out of five children from communities of color are not reading at a proficient level.
        • Eighty-five per cent of children in juvenile detention are illiterate.
        • One in four children grow up not knowing how to read at a functional level.