Books like The bridge reading kit by Alison Dewsbury

A timeless lecture manual that examines reading through the lens of psychology, offering systematic strategies for adult learners and contributing to a broader understanding of civilization.

Alan Jacobs shows that reading is thriving in America and offers practical, playful advice to help readers enjoy books without judgment, covering literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction and digital reading.

Reading Mastery Signature Edition is proven to help students decode and comprehend the meaning of print effortlessly, even students who are seriously at risk of failure. Strategy-based instruction allows students to learn more efficiently. Intensive, explicit, systematic teaching helps students achieve a high rate of success. Carefully scaffolded lessons build confidence and independence. Ongoing assessments and specific guidelines for remediation help you make effective instructional decisions. Addresses all five essential components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Provides spelling instruction to help students make the connection between decoding and spelling patterns. Develop decoding, word recognition and comprehension skills that transfer to other subject areas. - Publisher.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.