Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Texts
Author : Cappiello, Mary Ann
Publisher : Shell Education
Release Date : 2017-03-01
ISBN : 1618139207
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (139 Download)
Download Free Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Texts PDF by Cappiello, Mary Ann Full Book and published by Shell Education. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.