Slides from TextProject CEO Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Hiebert’s webinar on AI and vocabulary learning for Read Washington on March 21, 2026.
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Frankly Freddy Blog: Recent Posts
- Middle Schoolers Deserve Stories, Not Worksheets
- Guest Post: Motivation Isn’t About Lowering the Bar
- Building Background That Matters: How I Create Text Sets for Adolescent Readers
- Climbing the Staircase of Automaticity: Why Volume and Design Matter in Adolescent Reading
- Not Zero: Why Adolescent Reading Interventions Should Start Where Students Are
- When Aspirational Benchmarks Become Public Verdicts: Revisiting NAEP Proficiency
- From Reluctant to Engaged: Open-Access Text Sets That Transform Adolescent Readers
- Flattening the Developmental Staircase: Lexical Complexity in Elementary Reading Texts Across Six Decades
- Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Reviving Freddy’s Favorites
- Why Knowledge Matters from Day One
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