Recommended Reading for Professionals

Snowling, M.J., Hulme, C. (2005). The Science of Reading: A Handbook. Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Brain and Learning

Berninger, V., Richards, T. (2002). Brain literacy for educators and psychologists. Amsterdam: Academic Press.

Blakemore, S., Frith, U. (2005). The learning brain: Lessons for education. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Dehaene, S. (2009). Reading in the brain: The science and evolution of a human invention. New York, NY: Penguin Viking.

Wolf, M. (2007). Proust and the squid: The story and science of the reading brain. New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Comprehension

Berkeley, S., Scruggs, T. E., Mastropieri, M. A. (2009). Reading comprehension instruction for students with learning disabilities, 1995—2006: A meta-analysis. Remedial and Special Education, 31(6), 423—436.

Cain, K., Oakhill, J. V. (Eds.). (2007). Children's comprehension problems in oral and written language: A cognitive perspective. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Cain, K. (2009, Spring). Making sense of text: Skills that support text comprehension and its development. Perspectives on Language and Literacy, 35(2), 11—14.

Carlisle, J., Rice, M. S. (2003). Improving reading comprehension: Research-based principles and practices. Baltimore, MD: York Press.