TextProject aims to bring beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools, particularly the texts used for reading instruction.

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Hiebert citrixUsing Quantitative Measures of Text Complexity in Classroom Instruction:  What’s Appropriate? What’s Not?

General measures may be useful in building assessments but, for classroom purposes, specific information about features of texts is needed. The use of specific information about text features will be demonstrated for primary grades and for middle grades and beyond.

Join us on 6/20/2013 as Elfrieda (Freddy) H. Hiebert presents a FREE webinar. Register now!

Student Resources

TextProject provides free, downloadable sets of texts that fill specific needs:

SummerReads™
Stop the summer slump

BeginningReads™ Logo"Read to learn" while learning to read

talking points for kids logoIncrease meaningful, text-based discussions

FYI for KIDS 125A magazine based reading program

Teacher Resources

TextProject helps teachers with evidence-based lessons and lists. Free downloads.

E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday EventsUse everyday words to teach new words

TextProject Word Pictures LTblue grey 200Use pictures to teach complex words

Word Lists
Be informed about vocabulary

RAF logo 72Increase student knowledge through read-alouds

Professional Development Resources

TextProject provides resources for teacher education.

text matters logoKeep up with the latest reading research

teacher development series logoLearn core ideas about complex text

webinars logoView the latest presentations

textproject answers logoAnswers to frequently asked reading research questions

Recent Frankly Freddy Posts

8 May 2013

An Inside View of the New Assessments

Freddy discusses the computer adaptive assessment portion of the new upcoming assessments.

12 April 2013

FYI for Kids: Building Students’ Capacity for Complex Text

How does the magazine format help students read more complex texts?

22 March 2013

Read-Aloud Favorites: A Source for Enriching Students’ Knowledge of the World and of Language

What's New

3 June 2013

Presentation
Building Knowledge with Complex Texts

Presentation slides from Freddy's June 1, 2013 presentation at the North Carolina Leadership Institute.

30 May 2013

Presentation
Informational Text and the CCSS

Presentation slides from Dr. Nell Duke's 5/30/2013  webinar.

Dr. Duke presents the pitfalls and potential of the CCSS as it relates to informational texts. She explains the differences between previous and current definitions for key words used in the CCSS.

15 May 2013

Webinar
Words, Knowledge, and Complex Text

The recording of a webinar Freddy presented for MA teachers and educational leaders on May 10, 2013