Teaching guide for BeginningReads, FYI for Kids, SummerReads, and Talking Points for Kids texts.
A set of comprehension guides developed by Pat Cunningham for FYI for Kids texts.
Guide for tutors and teachers working with young readers, includes activities for vocabulary development, word study, and writing skills.
Comprehension guides to accompany TextProject’s SummerReads and FYI for Kids
Free downloadable ebooks including TextProject originals and reissued classics
Presentation by Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert at the 2024 conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Background Builders: Energy Use in Humans… Read More »Contextual dynamics in reading: Navigating challenges and leveraging opportunities across texts.
In these clips from the Q & A session of a webinar for the International Literacy, Cervetti and Hiebert emphasize the importance of integrating content area learning with ELA, cautioning against replacing experiential learning with superficial knowledge in ELA curricula. They advocate for diverse text sets to build depth in students’ reading comprehension and vocabulary, and to foster meaningful engagement and ownership in their learning.
Slides from Freddy’s recent presentation to Wisconsin Teacher Educators. Download presentation slides as PDF file Related Research Articles Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building… Read More »Reclaiming Our Field: Three Highlights from Research & Practice
One learning technique has proven effective in supporting students in organizing and remembering knowledge: semantic maps.
Whether the technique is called a semantic, concept, or mind map, the distinguishing feature is that words, phrases, or sentences that represent concepts are presented in a diagram-like scheme.
In this session, speakers Gina N. Cervetti and Elfrieda (Freddy) H. Hiebert will discuss the importance of knowledge building in the literacy instruction classroom and draw direct connections to both students’ academic success and their social-emotional well-being through developing other critical skills essential for personal growth.
My hope is that when a plaque gets put up for me some day, that people will see this unusual name and say: ‘She was committed to the kids, and to their teachers.’ And I review that commitment every single morning and every night… I just have to keep answering the questions I think are important.
“Knowledge building as the foundation of literacy learning” is our focus this May at TextProject, and what better way to kick it off than by… Read More »TextProject celebrates Children’s Book Week May 2 – 6!
Slides from Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hieberts presentation at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association
Abstract Learn how existing texts can be reorganized to give beginning readers opportunities to apply and extend their developing knowledge of letter–sound correspondences and of… Read More »Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building through Beginning Texts
Today, in a world of instantaneous communication, children and young people can be confronted with images and information that are troubling and hard to understand. “Fostering Hope with Children’s Literature” is an essay that draws on scholarship about how literature can give children and young people insight into how people have found unexpected sources of strength and resilience in challenging times.