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TExT Products

TextProject creates reading programs based on our TExT model of text complexity.

Among the leading classroom reading programs based on TExT are QuickReads and ZipZoom.

SummerReads is TextProject's free summer reading program, based on the TExT model, that helps at-risk readers avoid the summer slump.

For Fall 2011, TextProject launches our new BeginningReads program to support bringing children into reading by connecting their oral language knowledge with written words.

Talking Points for Kids is a prototype program that aims to increase meaningful discussion with students.

Teacher Support

TextProject helps teachers who want to improve their students' reading achievement.

Reading activities promote fluency and vocabulary, including E4: Exceptional Expressions for Everyday Events (still free but newly revised, updated and polished) and QuickReads Word Pictures.

Professional development, including a series of upcoming webinars, provides teachers background on the elements of reading success.

Benchmark Texts: Stepping Up Complexity is a set of contemporary benchmark books that complements those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.

Word lists, such as the popular WordZones™ for 5,586 Most Frequent Words, focus on the vocabulary needed for middle- and high-school success.

Research

TextProject's new Reading Research Report series documents innovations in reading education.

The latest report looks at the measurement of text complexity under the guidelines of the CCSS.

The TextProject Library contains a decade's worth of research articles, presentation slides and more from founder Elfrieda H. Hiebert and her colleagues. Including the most recent addition, presentation slides on 7 Actions Teachers Can Take to Increase Students' Capacity with Complex Text.