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.
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.
