Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text

Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text
ISBN-10
1425814603
ISBN-13
9781425814601
Category
Education
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2014-11-01
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Authors
Erika Thulin Dawes, Mary Ann Cappiello

Description

This resource helps teachers learn to evaluate children's literature, YA literature, and informational texts for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. This book explores how instructional purpose shapes the kinds of curricular texts used, and also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection, this resource helps teachers better understand the importance of text complexity when building and using text sets in the classroom and reading for multiple purposes.

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