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
Introducing TextModels, a new series of texts co-created with AI. These texts grew out of Dr. Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert’s work on the role of AI in teaching vocabulary, automaticity and background knowledge. More texts will be added as we develop this new TextProject component.
Background Builders- Geology
Background Builders – Health
Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert delivered a keynote address during the Reading Hall of Fame Mentoring session organized by the Literacy Research Association on December 5, 2024.
Unlike the strict vocabulary limits of the past, scaffolded texts use language research to create rich learning opportunities. At their core is the organization of words into morphological families – groups that share the same root. This structure comes from analyzing large collections of texts to identify the word families that occur most often at different grade levels.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers educators a data-driven alternative to intuition-based word lists. By analyzing vast language datasets, AI tools can identify word clusters supporting text comprehension and general knowledge, as well as words with rich webs of related vocabulary.
