Recommended Reading
These articles have been grouped roughly by category. Some of them, of course, address more than one of the categories, and these articles have been placed in more than one section. Others are simply placed in the category that is consistent with their primary focus, although they may have content related to other areas as well.
Scientific Studies of Reading
Cunningham, A.E. & Stanovich, K.E. (1998). What reading does for the mind.
American Educator, 22(Spring/Summer), 8-15.Gough, P. B. (1996). How children learn to read and why they fail. Annals of Dyslexia, 46, 3-20.
Kamil, M.L., Mosenthal, P.B., Pearson, P.D., & Barr, R. (2000). Handbook of Reading Research. Vol. III. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
McCardle, P. & Chhabra, V. (Eds.). (2004). The voice of evidence in reading research. Baltimore: Brooks.
National Institute for Literacy. (2005, Fall). What is scientifically based research? A guide for teachers. Retrieved January 26, 2006, from http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/science_research.pdf
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. NIH Publication No. 00-4754. Washington, DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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, 2, 31-74.
Share, D. L., & Stanovich, K. E. (1995). Cognitive processes in early reading development: A model of acquisition and individual differences. Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology, 1, 1-57.
Stanovich, K.E. & Stanovich, P.J. (2003). Using research and reason in education: How teachers can use scientifically based research to make curricular & instructional decisions. Jessup, MD: National Institute for Literacy. Retrieved January, 26, 2006, from http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/pdf/Stanovich_Color.pdf
Stanovich, K. E. (1986). Matthew effects in reading: Some consequences of individual differences in acquisition of literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 21, 360-407.
Stanovich, K.E., & Stanovich, P.J. (1995) How research might inform the debate about early reading acquisition. Journal of Research in Reading, 18, 87-105.