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
1425897452
ISBN-13
9781425897451
Category
Education
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2014-11-01
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Authors
Erika Thulin Dawes, Mary Ann Cappiello

Description

As an important tool for instruction and text selection, Teaching to Text Complexity helps teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature and informational text for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. In addition, this timely resource explores how instructional purpose shapes not only the kinds of curricular texts used, but also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection, this book helps teachers more deeply understand text complexity in today's standards as well as its importance when building and using text sets in the classroom and reading for different purposes.

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