INDEX

Federally Funded Research
The research findings from more than 30 years of studies under two very expensive federally funded programs are now available. The results confirm what we've known for decades: Direct, intensive, systematic and explicit phonics instruction is a necessary component of any successful and effective reading program.

• List of publications from the NICHD Reading Research By Reid Lyon, Ph.D. | Published 12/29/2001
  The NICHD Reading Research Program: three decades of research to understand how children learn to read, why some children have difficulties doing so, and what can be done to prevent and remediate reading failure.

• Rep. Castle's Education Research Bill Ready for the President's Signature --U.S. House of Representatives, 10/17/02

• NAEP 2000 4th-Grade Reading Results Released, 4/6/01
  This report presents results of the NAEP 2000 reading assessment at grade 4 and makes comparisons to fourth-grade reading performance on previous NAEP assessments. Performance results are also presented by percentile distribution as well as by demographic subgroups, including race/ethnicity, gender, region of the country, type of location, type of school, and eligibility for the free/reduced-price lunch program. The report also includes the full text of a reading passage, sample test questions, and examples of student responses.
  View the report.

• Statement of Dr. G. Reid Lyon before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Education and the Workforce Hearing 3/8/01

• Whole Language Lives On: The Illusion of "Balanced" Reading Instruction by Louisa Moats 10/00

• U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Hearings on "The Importance of Literacy" 9/26/00
  • Testimony of Dr. Donald N. Langenberg, Chancellor • University System of Maryland, Adelphi, MD
  • Testimony of Ms. Linda Butler, Professional Development Specialist • NICHD Early Interventions Project, Washington, DC
  • Testimony of Mrs. Pam Barret, First Grade Teacher and NRRF 1998 Teacher of the Year • Tovashal Elementary School, Murrieta, CA

• National Reading Panel Report
  • Report Originated—NIH News Release—March 27, 1998
    "Panel to Assess New Readiness of Reading Research For Use in Nation's Classrooms"
  • Report Completed—NIH News Release—April 13, 2000
    National Reading Panel Reports Combination of Teaching Phonics, Word Sounds, Giving Feedback on Oral Reading Most Effective Way to Teach Reading,
  • Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
  • News Commentary—U.S.A. Today, 5/27/00
  • Scholars' Commentary
    • The Reading Wars: Understanding the Debate Over How Best to Teach Children to Read—Los Angeles Times, 6/18/00
    • The National Reading Panel Report: Missing the Point—by James J. Campbell, M.D.
    • A Return to Scientific Reading Instruction— by Patrick Groff

• Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) Reauthorization

• Scientific Principles of Reading Instruction

• NICHD Research Studies
  • List of publications from the NICHD Reading Research By Reid Lyon, Ph.D. | Published 12/29/2001
    The NICHD Reading Research Program: three decades of research to understand how children learn to read, why some children have difficulties doing so, and what can be done to prevent and remediate reading failure.
  • NICHD Research: Setting the Record Straight
  • Overview of NICHD Reading and Literacy Initiatives by Dr. G. Reid Lyon
  • NICHD Early Interventions Project in Washington, D.C.
  • A Synthesis of Research on Reading Conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Education Research: Is What We Don't Know Hurting Our Children? —Dr. G. Reid Lyon's Statement before the House Science Committee, Subcommittee on Basic Research -October, 26, 1999

• National Research Council Report "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children"
  Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin, Editors

• Project Follow Through Findings
  Project Follow Through Analysis

Research News

The Voice of Evidence in Reading Research - 2004
Edited by Peggy McCardle, Ph.D., M.P.H., & Vinita Chhabra, M.Ed.
Foreword by Catherine Snow
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
496 pages • 6 x 9 jacketed hardcover
ISBN 1-55766-672-5 • $29.95
www.brookespublishing.com
800-638-3775 • fax: 410-337-8539

Robert W. Sweet, Jr., NRRF co-founder, has written a chapter for this new book, which discusses the latest in reading research. The book is best introduced by the press release. To view a table of contents or order the book, visit the Brookes Publishing Web site.

• Neural deficits in children with dyslexia ameliorated by behavioral remediation: Evidence from functional MRI
• Researcher's Critique of Month by Month Phonics
  • Selection of a Systematic Phonics Program for NYC Students - 2/4/03
• Progress in Understanding Reading: Scientific Foundations and New Frontiers --Reviewed by Gay Ivey, James Madison University
• Children's Academic Success, Failure Subject of Landmark Indiana University Research Project - 4/22/02
• Myth Slain: Poor Kids Can Read - 4/2/02
• Scientific Studies of Reading

Reading Recovery Research
Schools across the country are rushing to adopt this whole-language tutoring program at great expense, even though research indicates that it doesn't live up to its expectations.

• Reading Recovery Program Deemed a Failure - 11/4/2004
  Read the internal report criticizing the Madison [Wisconsin] school district's expensive first-grade reading program, by Katherine Esposito and Tim Potter, www.isthmus.com
• The Reading Recovery Approach To Preventive Early Intervention: As Good as it Gets? -- William E. Tunmer & James W. Chapman (PDF)
• Researchers Urge Officials To Reject Reading Recovery - Education Week, 6/5/02
• Researchers' Views on Reading Recovery (PDF)
• Reading Recovery: Just the Facts?
  by Bill Carlson
• "Reading Recovery" is no such thing
  by Mrs. Nora Chabazi, April 25, 2001
• A Curriculum/Instruction Specialist From Ohio Speaks Out
• Reading Recovery Research Project - San Diego Unified School District
• Success in Reading Recovery Depends on the Development of Phonological Processing Skills
  James W. Chapman, William E. Tunmer and Jane E. Prochnow
  Massey University, New Zealand, August 1999
• Illiterate and Unhappy - by Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 2000.
• Observations on Reading Recovery - by Dr. Patrick Groff, NRRF Board Member and Senior Advisor
  
• Reading Recovery: An Evaluation of Benefits and Costs - by Dr. Bonnie Grossen, Research Associate, University of Oregon; Gail Coulter, Research Associate, University of Oregon; Barbara Ruggles, Beacon Hill Elementary, Park Forest, Illinois
  
• Questions and Conclusions from a Discussion of Reading Recovery© - The effectiveness and cost of Reading Recovery© have become a subject for serious examination. School district response to the discussion contained in these excerpts will have a direct affect on California school district Language Arts curriculum expenditures and on the reading ability of California school children.
• Reading Recovery Bites the Dust in Columbus, Ohio—Investors Business Daily Editorial 4/1/99
• Letter to the Editor Relating to Reading Recovery: Education Week 3/10/99
  by Cathy Froggatt, former State Director, North Carolina Division of NRRF

Surveys of Experimental Research on Reading Instruction

Teacher Education Research

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