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

Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Texts
ISBN-10
1618139207
ISBN-13
9781618139207
Category
Education
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2017-03-01
Publisher
Shell Education
Authors
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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