Children’s literacy learning and screen time
A question that parents frequently ask these days is: Does screen time count as reading time? With such a wide variety of online reading experiences
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Heavy Backpacks
Backpacks are useful for carrying school supplies. A student can fill their backpack with books, notebooks, pens, pencils, and other things a student may
Are 21st century 5-year-olds cognitively ready to read?
TextProject founder Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert’s examination of assumptions in the Common Core State Standards regarding kindergarten instruction and the history of kindergarten text difficulty. Click
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Is Reading in Kindergarten the Means for Ensuring College and Career Readiness?
The inclusion of kindergarten in the CCSS about text difficulty represents an implicit assumption about beginning reading that also requires consideration—that earlier is better. Does… Read More »Is Reading in Kindergarten the Means for Ensuring College and Career Readiness?
Living in Zoos
A day at a zoo can be quite memorable for the zoo visitors. But what about the animals that live at the zoo?
The 90-10 Rule of Vocabulary in Increasing Students’ Capacity for Complex Text
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
Identifying Principles for the Creation of Texts in A Variety of Languages for Beginning Readers
Beginning readers need substantial and consistent data about language they are learning.
Homework
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
Narrative Benchmark books
Freddy adds contemporary benchmark books to those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.
Additional SummerReads Resources
More SummerReads related materials that are available on TextProject.