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
“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.
In this presentation, Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert builds on her research on vocabulary and the article “Fostering Hope with Children’s Literature” (The Reading Teacher, 2022), in describing how literature for children and adolescents can create a community of hope in classrooms.
Freddy talks with the hosts of Literacy Talks about how small changes in teaching vocabulary and text complexity can lead to big differences in students’ literacy growth.
Download Literacy Research Association 2023 Conference presentations on Reading Research in the 21st Century.
Children need to see lots and lots of texts to become proficient beginning readers. To increase text exposure to engaging, curriculum-based texts, we are a new program at TextProject: TextProject’s (TP) Decoding + Knowledge Program. Our aim is to give teachers, tutors, caregivers, and others easy access to texts that they can use to support children’s automatic and meaningful beginning reading.
Join us in creating a list of benchmark books.
Freddy adds contemporary benchmark books to those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.