A List of the Education/Literacy Books I've Read

In February of 2011 I started tutoring a friend's daughter in reading, confident that since I taught my son to read, I could help her.  Being the nerd that I am, I started doing research.  And then I got carried away. 

I actually don't recommend most of these as must-read: they were interesting from a research perspective, but there are only 3 that I would recommend as must-reads to parents who are curious about early literacy.  Those are:

- Why Johnny Can't Read 

- Growing a Reader From Birth

- The Between the Lions Book for Parents

Once you read those 3 book (the links above go to my reviews on this blog), you can read the descriptions online of the other books to see if they would be interesting to you.

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Here's the list of all the books I read between Feb. and Aug. 2011 (in order of publication date):

- Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do about It by Rudolf Franz Flesch (1954)

- How to Tutor by Samuel L. Blumenfeld (1973)

- Teach Your Preschooler to Read by Donald Emery (1975)

- Why Johnny Still Can't Read: A New Look at the Scandal of Our Schools by Rudolf Franz Flesch (1983)

- Making the words stand still by Donald E. Lyman (1986)

- The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson (1990)

- Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference During the Early Years by Louisa C. Moats, Susan L. Hall and G. Reid Lyon (1999)

- Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success by Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, M. Susan Burns, Peg Griffin and Catherine E. Snow (Jan 7, 1999)

- READING REFLEX: The foolproof phono-graphix method for teaching your child to read by Carmen McGuinness and Geoffrey McGuinness (Aug 1, 1999)

- Teaching Reading and Writing with Word Walls (Grades K-3) by Janiel Wagstaff (1999)

- Instant File-Folder Games for Reading: Super-Fun, Super-Easy Reproducible Games That Help Kids Build Important Reading Skills-Independently! by Marilyn Myers Burch and Marilyn Burch (2001)

- 40 Sensational Sight Word Games: Quick & Easy Games and Reproducibles That Reinforce the Top 100 Sight Words That Are Key to Reading Success by Joan Novelli (2002)

- Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller (Jan 1, 2002)

- Growing a Reader from Birth: Your Child's Path from Language to Literacy by Diane McGuinness (2004)

- The Between the Lions Book for Parents : Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn to Read by Linda K. Rath, Louise Kennedy and Christopher Cerf (foreword) (Jan 1, 2005)

- Fluency Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices by Timothy Rasinski, Camille Blachowicz and Kristin Lems (2005)

- Thinking Games for Kids by Cheryl Tuttle and Penny Paquette (2005)

- Eyes Before Ease: The Unsolved Mysteries and Secret Histories of Spelling by Larry Beason (2006)

- Teaching Early Writing and Reading Together: Mini-Lessons that Link K-2 Literacy Instruction by Connie Campbell Dierking (2007)

- Literacy Leadership in Early Childhood: The Essential Guide (Language and Literacy Series) (Practitioner's Bookshelf) by Dorothy S. Strickland and Shannon Riley-Ayers (2007)

- Literacies In Childhood: Changing Views, Challenging Practice by Laurie Makin, Ph.D, Criss Jones Diaz and Claire McLachlan (2008)

- The ABCs of Literacy: Preparing Our Children for Lifelong Learning by Cynthia Dollins (2008)

- Sound It Out! Phonics in a Comprehensive Reading Program by John F. Savage (2010)