Elfrieda H. Hiebert

Psychology · Social Sciences

40h-index5.3kcitations172works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Reading and Literacy Development(115), Text Readability and Simplification(38), Second Language Acquisition and Learning(25), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies(22), Writing and Handwriting Education(20)

Publications171 total

Flattening the Developmental Staircase: Lexical Complexity Progression in Elementary Reading Texts Across Six Decades
Education Sciences·2025Open Access
The Presence and Progression of Rare Vocabulary in Texts Across Elementary Grades and Between Genres
Education Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Unpacking automaticity: Scaffolded texts and comprehension
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
“Making Sure the Books Check Every Box”: Preservice Teachers Learning to Select Texts for Reading Instruction
Literacy Research and Instruction·2024· 4 cited
“<scp>CATERing</scp>” to Readers' Needs with <scp>AI</scp>: Innovation in Text Design and Instruction
The Reading Teacher·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building through Beginning Texts
The Reading Teacher·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Thinking through research and the science of reading
Phi Delta Kappan·2023· 3 cited
Text Types and Their Relation to Efficacy in Beginning Reading Interventions
Reading Research Quarterly·2023· 7 cited
Meta-Analysis Examining the Impact of Vocabulary Instruction on Vocabulary Knowledge and Skill
Reading Psychology·2023· 25 cited
“Batting” around Ideas: A Design/Development Study of Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of Text Difficulty and Text Complexity
Reading Psychology·2023· 3 cited
Which words to teach: review and reflection
Elsevier eBooks·2022
Texts for reading instruction and the most common words in modern standard Arabic: an investigation
Reading and Writing·2022· 3 cited
What does research say about the texts we use in elementary school?
Phi Delta Kappan·2022· 6 cited
The Role of Word-, Sentence-, and Text-Level Variables in Predicting Guided Reading Levels of Kindergarten and First-Grade Texts
The Elementary School Journal·2022· 14 cited
When Students Perform at the Below Basic Level on the NAEP: What Does It Mean and What Can Educators Do?
The Reading Teacher·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Fostering Hope with Children's Literature
The Reading Teacher·2021· 8 cited
The Word Complexity of Primary‐Level Texts: Differences Between First and Third Grade in Widely Used Curricula
Reading Research Quarterly·2021· 17 cited
Does One Size Fit All? Exploring the Contribution of Text features, Text content, and Grade of Use on Comprehension
Reading Psychology·2020· 6 cited
Features of Known and Unknown Words for First Graders of Different Proficiency Levels in Winter and Spring
Education Sciences·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Has the Presence of First‐Grade Core Reading Program Academic Vocabulary Changed Across Six Decades?
Reading Research Quarterly·2020· 4 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

P. David Pearson(10), Gina N. Cervetti(5), Carol Sue Englert(3), Timothy V. Rasinski(3), Michael L. Kamil(2), Heidi Anne E. Mesmer(2), Alexandra Spichtig(2), S. Jay Samuels(2), Marco Bravo(2), Barbara M. Taylor(2), Charles Fisher(2), James W. Cunningham(1), Steven J. Amendum(1), Kristin Conradi(1), Nell K. Duke(1), Connie A. Bridge(1), Shira Lubliner(1), Judith A. Scott(1), Ruben Castaneda(1), Yaacov Petscher(1)