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… Read More »ILA Webinar: Knowledge Building as the Foundation of Literacy Learning
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… Read More »“I just have to keep answering the questions I think are important”: Dr. Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert on the Getting Smarter podcast
“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.… Read More »Fostering Hope with Children’s Literature
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),… Read More »Webinar: How Words and Literature Support 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’… Read More »Podcast: Valuable Words About Vocabulary
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… Read More »TextProject’s Decoding + Knowledge Program
