Frankly Freddy Blog
TextProject president and CEO Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert blogs about important issues in reading research and practice.
Frankly Freddy entries (published from 2005 to 2014) have been sorted into five topics of literacy learning and instruction. Click here to download the ebook!
What Should Goals Be For Increasing Students’ Oral Reading Rates?
May 26, 2018
The question of how much growth to set as goals for oral reading fluency depends on the grade level and where students are in relation to grade-level patterns. But before I give my recommendations, I would like to review several critical points about oRead More »What Should Goals Be For Increasing Students’ Oral Reading Rates?
The Stories of Words: TextProject’s Newest Texts and Vocabulary Product
January 9, 2017
The texts in the Stories of Words series provide a great opportunity for students to expand their vocabularies, increase their background knowledge, and develop facility with the core vocabulary of written English.
Interpreting Intervention Outcomes: Lexile-Based Assessments and Norm-Referenced Assessments
April 8, 2016
Are the results from Lexile-based assessments and Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) comparable? For educators, how do the results from Lexile-based and norm-referenced assessments relate to the results of summative, end-of-the-year, state-mandated assessments?heere
Join the “Read-an-Article-a-Day” Initiative
January 21, 2016
What is the “Read-an-Article-a-Day” Initiative and why is it important?
The Reach of Literacy Research
November 5, 2015
The age old debate: Quality versus quantity in the field of reading research
Claims about Text Complexity within the Common Core State Standards: Examining the Evidence
March 3, 2014
Standard 10 of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) evaluates students’ ability to read increasingly more complex texts across the grades to ensure proficiency with texts of college and careers by high school graduation. The content of Standard 10 isRead More »Claims about Text Complexity within the Common Core State Standards: Examining the Evidence
Summary of Kenji Hakuta on English Language Learners and the Common Core State Standards
October 31, 2013
Highlights of Hakuta’s presentation in Virtual Institute on Assessment and the CCSS on TextProject’s YouTube channel.
Reading Rules for Becoming Proficient with Complex Texts
August 30, 2013
Freddy’s reading rules: Read more. Mostly silent. Focus on knowledge.
Why Becoming a Nation of Readers Is Still Relevant
August 23, 2013
Freddy introduces the first eBook in TextProject’s Reading Essentials Reprint Series.
Summary of Karen Wixson on “Assessment and Instruction in the Era of the CCSS in English Language Arts”
August 2, 2013
Karen Wixson’s session in TextProject’s Virtual Institute on Assessments and the Common Core should be on the top of the list in any teacher education or professional development course for providing pre- and in-service teachers with an overview of the new generation of assessments. Dr. Wixson provides a succinct but comprehensive overview of the key aims, tasks, and implications of the assessments being developed by the two consortium—Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).