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The Science of Reading

Jul 22
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 y...

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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 Hei...

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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...

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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 me...

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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 t...

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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 n...

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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 Lan...

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The Simple View of Reading: Still Conclusive After 33 Years

Stephen Parker

Mar 3, 2019
9 min

The Simple View of Reading: Still Conclusive After 33 Years

In this blogpost I take a look at the Philip Gough and William Tunmer classic model of reading comprehension, first published in 1986. Af...

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