Stephen Parker
The Kilpatrick Conundrum
Dr. Nathan Clemens (Univ. of Texas, Austin), along with 8 colleagues from various other U.S. universities, recently penned an article...
Stephen Parker
- Jan 22
- 12 min
Creating a Skilled Speller
For you, as a skilled speller, writing the words BOAT and NOTE is trivial. You don’t give the task a second thought: BOAT is spelled...
5,953 views
Stephen Parker
- Oct 7, 2021
- 33 min
The Essential Linnea Ehri
A Research-Based Explanation of How Children Learn to Read Words With 160 published papers, Linnea Ehri has been one of the most...
24,032 views
Stephen Parker
- Jun 16, 2021
- 11 min
Jennifer Serravallo, Version 2.0
My negative review of Serravallo’s original Chapter 3 in her best-selling The Reading Strategies Book can be found here. Written in the...
8,614 views
Stephen Parker
- Jul 22, 2020
- 10 min
The "Sine Qua Non" of Reading Acquisition
With over 50 articles in refereed journals, David Share has been one of the most influential reading research scientists in the past 35...
2,861 views
Stephen Parker
- Oct 20, 2019
- 24 min
A Review of "The Reading Strategies Book"
The Reading Strategies Book, by Jennifer Serravallo, is one of the most popular how-to-teach-reading books in use today. Published by...
25,408 views
Stephen Parker
- Jul 15, 2019
- 14 min
Why Synthetic (Bottom-Up) Reading Instruction?
Introduction All words consist of individual sounds, called “phonemes,” which seamlessly blend together when the word is spoken. The word...
7,396 views
Stephen Parker
- Jun 25, 2019
- 25 min
A Brief History of Reading Instruction
Introduction For more than a century, reading instruction has been involved in a high-stakes battle between supporters of two opposing...
28,004 views
Stephen Parker
- Apr 29, 2019
- 8 min
The Alphabetic Code Made Easy
The alphabetic code is the set of correspondences that exist between the most basic sounds of English (called phonemes) and the letters...
22,444 views
Stephen Parker
- Apr 22, 2019
- 16 min
Sight Words, Orthographic Mapping, Phonemic Awareness
What, exactly, are sight words? How are they created? How are they related to orthographic mapping? What phonemic awareness skills are...
32,934 views
Stephen Parker
- Mar 8, 2019
- 13 min
Synthetic Phonics: What It Is and What It Is Not
Background During the quarter century, 1975 - 2000, the dominant method for teaching reading in the English-speaking world was Whole...
25,490 views
Stephen Parker
- Mar 3, 2019
- 15 min
The Simple View of Reading: Still Conclusive After 36 Years
In 1986, Whole Language, a philosophy for teaching reading that rejected systematic phonics, was approaching peak popularity. The two...
16,809 views