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  • Presentation Posted 06/24/2010

    Texas Reading First 2010

    Freddy presented at the 5/12/2010 Leading Together: Transitioning with Purpose Advanced Coaching Institute and Leadership Summit. If you’ve missed the presentation, you can download the handouts here.

    Download : "Texas-Reading-First-2010-05-12-handout.pdf" (PDF, 1.95MB)

  • Presentation Posted 06/22/2010

    Webinar: Stopping the Summer Slide with SummerReads™

    Dr. Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert presented a webinar on the effects of summer reading.

    Presentation Synopsis
    Over grades 1 to 3, Entwisle, Alexander, and Olson (1997) studied 800 children. Children from high and low socioeconomic levels made equivalent gains on reading (and math) during the school year. However, achievement level of low-income children either fell or stagnated during the summer, while higher-income children continued to progress. What can be done to stop this summer slide? Are there certain kinds of books that students should be reading?

    Includes Presentation Slides Accompanied by Audio of the Lecture

    Presentation Resource
    A chapter from the upcoming book, Revisiting Silent Reading: is referenced in the presentation. Click here to download the chapter.

    SummerReads can be downloaded for free here.

  • Presentation Posted 06/22/2010

    New Pearson webinar on QuickReads

    Last week Freddy did a webinar with Pearson, publisher of QuickReads.

    Presentation Synopsis
    In this webinar, Freddy demonstrates why automaticity remains a major challenge for many students. Freddy has coined a new term—comprehension-based silent reading rate (CBSRR)—to describe what we need to be focusing on. Attention to CBSRR is very different than the over-emphasis on oral reading that been so prominent over the last decade. In particular, Freddy focuses on the manner in which texts can facilitate or impede the development of CBSRR.

    Click here to view the free webinar, The Role of Text in Developing Fluency and Comprehension.