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
Free downloadable ebooks including TextProject originals and reissued classics
Batter up!
Whether you play sports or you watch others play sports, chances are some of the everyday words you use came from sports. Want to see which ones they are? Okay, this is the book you’ll want to read. Ready? Get set. Go!
Abbreviations help people save time in writing often used words. Take a look at the most common abbreviations and how they are used. C how many U know!
When things are invented, such as computers, new words are often created to describe them. Also, well-known words sometimes take on new meanings.
Every word has a history. Some of these histories, or origins, are quite surprising. Because people have come to the United States from countries around the world, many English words come from other languages. This is especially true for words about different foods.
ToolKit for Tutoring is a guide for tutors and teachers working with young readers to develop literacy skills. This guide includes activities that focus on vocabulary development, word study, and writing skills.
Talking points for a conversation between teachers and middle-school students about new vocabulary in complex texts.
Reading Partners has developed comprehension guides to accompany texts that they use in their tutoring sessions. Some of the texts they use includes TextProject’s SummerReads and FYI for Kids. Reading Partners has given TextProject permission to share the guides with classroom teachers.
Each guides includes directions that introduces the skill and an example for students and teachers to practice the skill. Use the guides as an introduction to learn a particular comprehension skill, or as a means to guide discussion about a text.
Engagement in reading is essential if students are to become proficient and lifelong readers.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 1979 Advanced Graduate Study, Elementary Education, Arizona State University, 1974-76 M.Ed., Elementary Education,… Read More »Elfrieda H. Hiebert–Curriculum Vitae
The Native American groups in North America spoke languages that are very different from English. In addition, there may have been as many as a thousand different Native American languages. Often, Native Americans and settlers invented sign language that allowed them to communicate with each other. In that way, both languages grew and the people began to understand one another.