The New Science of Vocabulary: AI-Enhanced Approaches to Word Selection

Presented by Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert, President and CEO, TextProject

Sponsored by Savvas Learning Company

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How can artificial intelligence help improve vocabulary instruction? AI is a hot topic in education, but this technology is so new that best practices for the classroom are still being established.

Join Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Hiebert, President and CEO of the non-profit organization TextProject, which was founded to provide resources to support higher reading levels, as she explores the opportunities to use AI to help strengthen vocabulary instruction and enhance students’ literacy skills. During this edWebinar, Dr. Hiebert will explore how to use AI tools to:

• Analyze language data and identify word features affecting student learning, such as morphology, exposure age, abstraction, and frequency
• Select target words and reading materials more efficiently
• Move beyond traditional definition-based methods and support teaching vocabulary through strategically chosen words and texts

Leveraging AI-generated insights has the potential to enhance vocabulary acquisition across all grades and subjects, revolutionizing word learning in education!

All educators with an interest in literacy—especially K-12 classroom teachers, reading coaches, literacy leaders, instructional leaders, special educators, and curriculum directors—are encouraged to attend this edWebinar. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

This edWebinar is part of the Science of Reading in Action: What’s New and What’s Next series. To explore other sessions in this series, click here.

About the Presenter

Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” H. Hiebert is President and CEO of TextProject, a nonprofit that provides open-access resources to support higher reading levels. Dr. Hiebert has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 45 years, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher and researcher. Today, her research addresses how fluency, vocabulary, and knowledge can be fostered through appropriate texts. For her work, she has been honored as the 2008 recipient of the William S. Gray Citation of Merit (awarded by the International Reading Association) and the 2013 recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Research to Practice (Interpretive) award. Dr. Hiebert is also a member of the Reading Hall of Fame and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

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