Webinars

TextProject Webinar: Stopping the Summer Slide with SummerReads

A short webinar on the importance of reading during summer vacations and how SummerReads can help stop the summer slide.

Stopping the Summer Slide with SummerReads™

In June 2010, 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?

Changing Readers, Changing Texts

Dr. Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert presented the fifth annual Jeanne S. Chall Memorial Lecture on February 10, 2010 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

The Role of Text in Developing Reading Fluency and Comprehension UPDATED VERSION

Dr. Freddy Hiebert discussed why text matters in developing reading fluency. Texts that contain too many difficult words frustrate beginning readers. This presentation examined key features in texts that support fluency and comprehension. Dr. Hiebert also closely examined the texts in core reading programs to highlight the need for texts that increase reading fluency and comprehension. This updated version of the presentation includes an explanation of how QuickReads fits in with the Common Core Standards.

New Pearson webinar on QuickReads

Attention to comprehension-based silent reading rate (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.