- Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us About How to Teach Reading, by Diane McGuinness
- Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, by David A. Kilpatrick
- Phonics and the Resistance to Reading, by Mike Lloyd-Jones
- Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read, by Stanislas Dehaene by Stanislas Dehaene
- A Seven Year Study of the Effects of Synthetic Phonics Teaching on Reading and Spelling Attainment, Rhona S Johnston and Joyce E Watson, 2005
- Getting ready for reading: Early phoneme awareness and phonics teaching improves reading and spelling in inner-city second language learners, Morag Stuart, British Journal of Educational Psychology (1999), 69, 587–605.
- Dale Willows (University of Toronto) discusses her research on Jolly Phonics in Canada. Note the very strong effects with ELL students.
- Dyslexics.org.uk – Susan Godsland
- Spelfabet – Alison Clarke, Speech Pathologist
- Teaching Children to Read & Write – Sue Lloyd, co-author of Jolly Phonics