The Reading Teacher

She is the author of the phonological awareness program, A Sound Beginning for Reading, and co-author of the phonics program, Sounds Like Phonics.

Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including The Reading Teacher and and REACH Journal of Inclusive Education.

Alongside her academic work, she regularly delivers professional development for practicing teachers.

Her research interests include early reading development, early intervention for reading difficulties, teacher professional learning, and the role of children's literature in early literacy instruction.

I clearly remember reading Lois Lowry's Number the Stars as a kid, and I swear I learned more about the visceral reality of World War II from that one novel than any textbook ever taught me.

Your childhood experience is actually perfectly mirrored in a brilliant 2023 study published in the journal The Reading Teacher.

The researchers wanted to quantify exactly what you just described.

They took a large group of children ages nine to 12 and split them into two groups.