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
Join us in creating a list of benchmark books.
Freddy adds contemporary benchmark books to those already identified by Jeanne Chall and the CCSS.
We need to do more than simply get students back on track in their academic learning. Yes, getting back on the page as readers and… Read More »Read-Alouds That Inspire
Beginning readers have different levels of proficiency, but many may follow a similar path as they learn new words and orthographic patterns. This may not
… Read More »Results May Vary: Do First-Grade Reading Curriculum and Instruction Need to Be Adapted?
Teachers can help beginning readers master more than half of the 2,500 most frequently occurring word families by focusing on words they have already acquired
