* A is for Apple, B is for Brawl. Great article explaining everything you need to know about how reading is taught in New York City schools. http://nymag.com/news/features/16775/
* New York’s New Approach. An equally great article explaining how systematic instruction in phonics came to be booted out of New York City classrooms. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E6DF1F3FF930A3575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
* An interview with Pat Lindamood and Nanci Bell, principal scientists and co-founders of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, a program that has had great success teaching dyslexic kids how to read.
* “The most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done,” by Phyllis Schlafly. She taught her six children how to read. She writes: “It is terribly important that your child be taught to read by the correct method before (emphasis hers) he is taught bad habits such as pretending (again, emphasis hers) to read by looking at pictures and guessing at the words. Your children and grandchildren can avoid all those bad habits, and the disappointments that result, if you teach your child to read at home.”