Teaching to Complexity
A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text| By: | Mary Ann Cappiello, Erika Thulin Dawes |
| Publisher: | Teacher Created Materials |
| Print ISBN: | 9781425814601 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781425897451 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.