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    The Kilpatrick Conundrum
    Stephen Parker
    • Feb 22
    • 9 min

    The Kilpatrick Conundrum

    Dr. Nathan Clemens (Univ. of Texas, Austin), along with 8 colleagues from various other U.S. universities, recently penned an article...
    4,259 views
    Creating a Skilled Speller
    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...
    5,693 views
    The Essential Linnea Ehri
    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...
    21,879 views
    Jennifer Serravallo, Version 2.0
    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...
    8,438 views
    The "Sine Qua Non" of Reading Acquisition
    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...
    2,753 views
    A Review of "The Reading Strategies Book"
    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...
    25,075 views
    Why Synthetic (Bottom-Up) Reading Instruction?
    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...
    7,203 views
    A Brief History of Reading Instruction
    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...
    25,346 views
    The Alphabetic Code Made Easy
    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...
    21,226 views
    Sight Words, Orthographic Mapping, Phonemic Awareness
    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...
    31,630 views
    Synthetic Phonics: What It Is and What It Is Not
    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...
    24,905 views
    The Simple View of Reading: Still Conclusive After 36 Years
    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...
    16,209 views
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