Notes from Dr Pete Bowers

Links for further study

  • Click this link for my “workshop booklet” with many resources I point to in the talk and links for further study.
  • Click this link for the video (18 min) of my TEDx talk I mention in the talk that uses SWI tools to explain many spellings typically treated as having “irregular” grapheme-phoneme correspondences. 
  • Click this link for my About WordWorks page with many recourses and videos, and my published research. 
    • Click here for an accessible article on the theory, research and practice of SWI (Bowers, 2022)
    • Click here for a short article (Bowers & Bowers, 2018) in a major journal on the motivation for SWI type instruction.
    • Click here for the intervention study that introduced the phrase “structured word inquiry” (Bowers & Kirby, 2010)
  • Click here for my page on “spelling-out orthography” that I discuss extensively in the talk. 
 
Email Dr Bowers at <peterbowers1@mac.com> with any questions. 
 

 
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