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Reading Today feature on Revisiting Silent Reading
Freddy’s upcoming book, Revisiting Silent Reading: New Directions for Teachers and Researchers was featured in Reading Today. Click here to read the article.
For more information about ordering the book, please visit IRA’s website.
Preview a chapter from the book here.
Posted 08/26/2010, Updated 08/26/2010
SUMMERREADS™ SWEEPSTAKES
Enter the SUMMERREADS™ SWEEPSTAKES and be eligible to win books from the QuickReads Fluency Library 1.
- One winner will get an entire level of the Library (108 books). Four winners will each get a set of social studies or science texts from one level (54 books). 18 winners will get one title (6 books).
- To enter the sweepstakes: Write a 100+-word description of how you used SummerReads™. Include your name and e-mail so that we can contact you.
- Send your description to AskFreddy by September 6, 2010, midnight (Pacific time).
- Winners will be chosen randomly. Descriptions will not be evaluated, will be read by only the TextProject team, and will not be posted.
1 Like SummerReads™, the books in the QuickReads Fluency Library use the TExT model, which means that they are (a) accessible and (b) engaging.
Posted 08/12/2010, Updated 08/12/2010
New Frankly Freddy entry
Click here to read Freddy’s latest blog entry!
Posted 08/04/2010, Updated 08/04/2010
Recent Additions to the TextProject Library
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Presentation Posted 06/24/2010
Texas Reading First 2010
Freddy presented at the 5/12/2010 Leading Together: Transitioning with Purpose Advanced Coaching Institute and Leadership Summit. If you’ve missed the presentation, you can download the handouts here.
Download : "Texas-Reading-First-2010-05-12-handout.pdf" (PDF, 1.95MB)
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Presentation Posted 06/22/2010
Webinar: Stopping the Summer Slide with SummerReads™
Dr. Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert presented a webinar on the effects of summer reading.
Presentation Synopsis
Over grades 1 to 3, Entwisle, Alexander, and Olson (1997) studied 800 children. Children from high and low socioeconomic levels made equivalent gains on reading (and math) during the school year. However, achievement level of low-income children either fell or stagnated during the summer, while higher-income children continued to progress. What can be done to stop this summer slide? Are there certain kinds of books that students should be reading?Includes Presentation Slides Accompanied by Audio of the Lecture
Presentation Resource
A chapter from the upcoming book, Revisiting Silent Reading: is referenced in the presentation. Click here to download the chapter.SummerReads can be downloaded for free here.
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Presentation Posted 06/22/2010
New Pearson webinar on QuickReads
Last week Freddy did a webinar with Pearson, publisher of QuickReads.
Presentation Synopsis
In this webinar, Freddy demonstrates why automaticity remains a major challenge for many students. Freddy has coined a new term—comprehension-based silent reading rate (CBSRR)—to describe what we need to be focusing on. Attention to CBSRR is very different than the over-emphasis on oral reading that been so prominent over the last decade. In particular, Freddy focuses on the manner in which texts can facilitate or impede the development of CBSRR.Click here to view the free webinar, The Role of Text in Developing Fluency and Comprehension.