Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert TextProject & University of California, Santa Cruz The English language has an incredibly rich vocabulary, and yet we use only about 2%… Read More »The 90-10 Rule of Vocabulary in Increasing Students’ Capacity for Complex Text
Beginning readers need substantial and consistent data about language they are learning.
Did you know students didn’t always have homework? Before the 1950’s teachers didn’t assign homework to elementary school kids. This is no longer the case… Read More »Homework
Freddy adds contemporary benchmark books to those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.
More SummerReads related materials that are available on TextProject.
Students from high and low socioeconomic homes have been found to make similar gains on reading during the school year (Alexander, Entwistle, & Olson, 2004).… Read More »What Teachers and Parents Can Do to Stop the Summer Reading Slide
The question at the heart of this booklet is whether time should be alloted during the school time for music education. Music is an important… Read More »Music in Schools
It is a given that students, everyone, should exercise during the day. But with all that schools are trying to accomplish in the school day,… Read More »Exercise in School
With talks of extending the school day and/or school year, what are some of the point view in this issue?
Teachers should use the lexile rating as an initial piece of information, much like a check of someone’s temperature. A temperature can be high or… Read More »Looking “Within” the Lexile for More Guidance: Word Frequency and Sentence Length
