Stephen ParkerFeb 229 minThe Kilpatrick ConundrumDr. Nathan Clemens (Univ. of Texas, Austin), along with 8 colleagues from various other U.S. universities, recently penned an article...
Stephen ParkerJan 2212 minCreating a Skilled SpellerFor 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...
Stephen ParkerOct 7, 202133 minThe Essential Linnea EhriA Research-Based Explanation of How Children Learn to Read Words With 160 published papers, Linnea Ehri has been one of the most...
Stephen ParkerJun 16, 202111 minJennifer Serravallo, Version 2.0My negative review of Serravallo’s original Chapter 3 in her best-selling The Reading Strategies Book can be found here. Written in the...
Stephen ParkerJul 22, 202010 minThe "Sine Qua Non" of Reading AcquisitionWith over 50 articles in refereed journals, David Share has been one of the most influential reading research scientists in the past 35...
Stephen ParkerOct 20, 201924 minA 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...
Stephen ParkerJul 15, 201914 minWhy 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...
Stephen ParkerJun 25, 201925 minA Brief History of Reading InstructionIntroduction For more than a century, reading instruction has been involved in a high-stakes battle between supporters of two opposing...
Stephen ParkerApr 29, 20198 minThe 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...
Stephen ParkerApr 22, 201916 minSight 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...
Stephen ParkerMar 8, 201913 minSynthetic Phonics: What It Is and What It Is NotBackground During the quarter century, 1975 - 2000, the dominant method for teaching reading in the English-speaking world was Whole...
Stephen ParkerMar 3, 201915 minThe 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...