Stephen Parker

A Research-Based Explanation of How Children Learn to Read Words With over 150 published papers, Linnea Ehri has been one of the most...

My negative review of Serravallo’s original Chapter 3 in her best-selling The Reading Strategies Book can be found here. Written in the...

With over 50 articles in refereed journals, David Share has been one of the most influential reading research scientists in the past 35...

The Reading Strategies Book, by Jennifer Serravallo, is one of the most popular how-to-teach-reading books in use today. Published by...

Introduction All words consist of individual sounds, called “phonemes,” which seamlessly blend together when the word is spoken. The word...

Introduction For more than a century, reading instruction has been involved in a high-stakes battle between supporters of two opposing...

The alphabetic code is the set of correspondences that exist between the most basic sounds of English (called phonemes) and the letters...

What, exactly, are sight words? How are they created? How are they related to orthographic mapping? What phonemic awareness skills are...

Background During the quarter century, 1975 - 2000, the dominant method for teaching reading in the English-speaking world was Whole...

In 1986, Whole Language, a philosophy for teaching reading that rejected systematic phonics, was approaching peak popularity. The two...