ISBN: 150634397X 9781506343976

Category: Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics

Page count: 216

<p>There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts</p> <p>No matter what discipline you teach, learn how to use complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of your students’ at just the right time.</p> <p>Updates to this new edition include</p> <ul> <li>How-to’s for measuring countable features of any written work</li> <li>A rubric for analyzing the complexity of both literary and informational texts</li> <li>Classroom scenarios that show the difference between a healthy struggle and frustration</li> <li>The authors’ latest thinking on teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent reading</li> </ul>