Stephen Parker

On one level, the trans phenomenon is a praiseworthy struggle for equality by a marginalized and vulnerable minority. But on another...

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...

A Research-Based Explanation of How Children Learn to Read Words With 160 published papers, Linnea Ehri has been one of the most...

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

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...