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Home » Frankly Freddy
Frankly Freddy
TextProject president and CEO Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert blogs about important issues in reading research and practice.
An Inside View of the New Assessments
Freddy discusses the computer adaptive assessment portion of the new upcoming assessments.
FYI for Kids: Building Students’ Capacity for Complex Text
How does the magazine format help students read more complex texts?
7 Actions That Literacy Leaders Can Take Right Now: Text Complexity
Seven actions in which literacy leaders can support teachers in ensuring students’ increased capacity with complex text.
7 Ways to make the 7 Minute Challenge Produce Learning
Can 7 minutes of reading really make a difference?
It’s Not Just Informational Text That Supports Knowledge Acquisition: The Critical Role of Narrative Text in the Common Core State Standards
Literature allows for examination of the influences of culture and history on individuals, not simply on our personal responses to texts. Guiding students in understanding how culture and history influences individual development and agency is part of the bigger picture.
Scaffolding Complex Text: Volume of Text Matters
What's the difference between text for below-level readers and advanced reader? How Lexiles differentiate "difficult" and "easier" books for readers.
Syntax and Text Complexity: A Classic Text Goes from College-Career Level to First Grade
Dr. Hiebert shows how the Lexile for a text can change with a few simple edits.
Teaching Complex Text: Why Look at Word Frequency?
Dr. Hiebert explores the relationship between a text's word frequency number and the Lexile number.
Children’s literacy learning and screen time
A question that parents frequently ask these days is: Does screen time count as reading time? With such a wide variety of online reading experiences available, the short answer would be have to be, “Yes, but…”