Parker proceeded to divide each of the lessons up into folders to be completed and then passed on to the next student.
SRA READING LEVELS BY GRADE SERIES
However, there was a series of workbooks containing 40 lessons each that could be purchased for a dollar. Parker’s school did not have the budget necessary to purchase entirely new and separate workbooks for each of the students based on their individual developmental levels. Individual differences in learning capacity and speed had to be taken into account if educators were going to successfully raise a generation of readers.ĭr. In plotting the scores, the traditional bell curve began to materialize, giving his theory about the role psychology plays in education merit. Faced with the daunting task of having to hand-grade 3,000 tests, Parker enlisted some of his school’s most intelligent seniors and they began to score the tests. His previous experience in the psychological field would give him insight that made teaching all children from the same material seem antithetical to his knowledge of the developing minds of students.ĭriving through the countryside with an overloaded car, Parker visited K-12 students throughout rural Florida to administer reading tests. A thirty-two children schoolhouse was the origin of an educational tool that would last for over 50 years. The SRA Reading Laboratory was designed in 1950 in rural Florida by Dr.
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