Frankly Freddy

TextProject president and CEO Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert blogs about important issues in reading research and practice.

Viewing entries posted in June 2012

Syntax and Text Complexity: A Classic Text Goes from College-Career Level to First Grade

Posted by Elfrieda H. Hiebert on 26 June 2012

Dr. Hiebert shows how the Lexile for a text can change with a few simple edits.

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Teaching Complex Text: Why Look at Word Frequency?

Posted by Elfrieda H. Hiebert on 21 June 2012

Dr. Hiebert explores the relationship between a text's word frequency number and the Lexile number.

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