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Recommended Reading

• The Bridge to Literacy
• By John Corcoran
• This book is a MUST READ for anyone interested in literacy. It covers the hows and whys of learners who struggle to read as well as WHAT to do about it.

• Why Our Children Can’t Read and What We Can Do About It
• By Diane McGuinness
• This book is an excellent overview of how reading is taught, what is working, and what is not. Available at any bookstore or Amazon.com

• Reading Comprehension: The Master Teacher Series
• By John Schacter
• This is a compact, worthwhile guide of comprehension strategies that work with step by step instructions and illustrations instructing how to implement them. Videos showing the strategies in practice in classrooms are also available on the site.
• www.teachingdoctors.com

• Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties
• By Jerome Rosner
• In this phenomenal book, you’ll find easy to understand information that moves past the diagnosing of learning difficulties and delves into WHAT TO DO about remediating them.

• Brain-Based Learning
• By Eric Jensen
• Practical, simple techniques that help apply brain-based learning principles to learning and life in general.

• A Mind at a Time
• By Mel Levine
• Easy-to-read text that helps identify an individual’s learning patterns and explains how to strengthen the eight different areas.

• Smart Moves
• By Carla Hannaford
• This book contains research-based movement activities as well as explanations about the role of the brain/body connection in learning and thinking.

• How to Increase Your Child’s Verbal Intelligence
• By Carmen and Geoff McGuinness
• This great book has some background information on learning and lots of simple, easy-to-do games for helping with verbalization and higher-level thinking. A fantastic book!

• Teach Like a Champion
• By Doug Lemov
• This book shares 46 techniques that provide teachers with ways to improve their efficiency of instruction and time management in the classroom. It comes with a video that demonstrates each of the techniques being taught in a classroom.

• The Book Whisperer
• By Donalyn Miller
• This book gives step by step guidance on how to get students to read authentic text for fun! The author is a 6th grade teacher whose students read 40 novels per year over and above the curriculum requirements. This is a fantastic resource for teachers whose students are reading accurately and need to step it up!

Web Links

• Fluency Training
• www.eyeqadvantage.com
• If you decide to order eyeQ, call Chuck at (801) 453-1700 ext. 124 (instead of ordering on-line), mention "Ounce of Prevention Reading Center" and receive a $50.00 discount.

• Advanced Brain Technologies
• www.advancedbrain.com
• This site sells innovative brain training products that maximize human potential. We like their CD’s of music to use to enhance learning.

• Peterson Handwriting
• www.peterson-handwriting.com
• Their handwriting program is brilliant in teaching handwriting by incorporating motor movement and muscle memory to facilitate handwriting (we’ve found it also enhances reading, attention, and a host of other things). Your students deserve to learn this! Other added bonuses: it’s inexpensive and easy to use.

• Mind Ware
• www.mindwareonline.com
• Brainy toys for kids of all ages

• Fitter
• www.fitter1.com
• Rocker board, disco seat for ‘physical overflow’

• Brainware Safari
• www.brainwareforyou.com
• Computer based program/games you can purchase and access from any computer to help increase the brain capacity of users. For ages 6-adult.

• Brain Connection
• www.BrainConnection.com
• Fun, free on-line games to improve memory, processing speed, and reaction time.

• Reading Reform Foundation
• www.rrf.org.uk/
• This is a site and forum to discuss what works best to teach the English code.

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