Resources

  1. Reporting by Emily Hanford, both current and excellent:
    1. What's wrong with how schools teach reading. 
    2. https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read
  2. Suggestions regarding what to do if your child’s school is not teaching reading correctly
  3. See this website for more from Emily Hanford
  4. Language at the Speed of Sight:
    1. How We Read, by Mark Seidenberg, Professor at the University of Wisconsin
  5. 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
  6. 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


    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.