5. Dr. Elfreida (Freddy) Hiebert -- Vocabulary Instruction, Text Complexity, and Self-Selected Reading

To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers & Educators

Today’s guest is Dr. Freddy Hiebert. We’ll talk about her newly published book about vocabulary instruction, her work around text complexity and her site textproject.org, how to ensure self-selected reading time is worth the time, and more. Later, I’m joined by my colleagues Macie Kerbs, Rosie Maurantonio, and Lea Leibowitz for a conversation about practical takeaways.
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Read a full transcript of this episode and learn more about the show at jenniferserravallo.com/podcast
Visit Text Project.org for Dr. Hiebert's books and articles, hundreds of texts to use with children, and more (all free!)
Read the article Dr. Hiebert mentions about using decodable versus other texts with beginning readers: https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rrq.513
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About this episode’s guest:

Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) has had a long career as a literacy educator, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher educator and researcher at the universities of Kentucky, Colorado-Boulder, Michigan, and California-Berkeley. Her research, which addresses how fluency, vocabulary, and knowledge can be fostered through appropriate texts, has been published in numerous scholarly journals and books. Through documents such as Becoming a Nation of Readers (Center for the Study of Reading, 1985) and Every Child a Reader (Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, 1999), she has contributed to making research accessible to educators. Hiebert’s contributions to research and practice have been recognized through awards such as the American Educational Research Association’s Research to Practice award (2013).
Special thanks to Scotty Sanders for audio editing this episode. https://www.scottysandersmedia.com/

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