Text Complexity: Stretching Readers With Texts and Tasks (Second Edition) (Corwin Literacy)

By: Douglas Fisher and Dr Nancy Frey and Diane K. Lapp

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Synopsis: There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts 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. Updates to this new edition include How-to’s for measuring countable features of any written work A rubric for analyzing the complexity of both literary and informational texts Classroom scenarios that show the difference between a healthy struggle and frustration The authors’ latest thinking on teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent reading