Brain Words

Written for beginning or seasoned teachers, homeschoolers, teacher educators, and parents who want to fully engage in their child's literacy development, this updated and highly readable new edition presents brain science, reading research, and theory that can be directly applied in teaching, leading to efficacious literacy instruction.

Author of many books and a renowned educational consultant, J. Richard Gentry has been an elementary classroom teacher, professor, and director of a university reading center. An internationally recognized researcher in reading, spelling, and the links between oral and written language, Gene Ouellette is professor and former head of the Psychology Department at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.

1. The Science of Reading: Rethinking Reading Instruction as Building a Dictionary in the Brain 2.How the Scientific Study of Reading Can Inform Teaching Part I: Understanding Models of Skilled Reading and How We Get There 3. Reading Theory Part II: The Importance of Oral Language to Early Literacy and Beyond - Completing the Picture for Science of Reading Backed Instruction 4. The Reading Brain 5. What Works and What Doesn't: An Evolving Critical Look at Current Teaching Practices 6. Phase Observation for Early Spelling to Read 7. Spell-to-Read: Building Brain Words in Kindergarten and First Grade 8. Building Brain Words in Second Through Sixth Grade 9. Understanding and Supporting Children with Dyslexia in Light of the Science of Reading