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Text Complexity
Stretching Readers With Texts and Tasks
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- English
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About this book
"There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts…"
---Doug, Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp
….And that's the crux, isn't it? That's why in this brand new edition of the bestselling Text Complexity, the renowned author team provide four new chapters that lay open the instructional routines that take students to new places as readers.Â
No matter what discipline you teach, you will learn how to craft purposeful instruction pitched to your readers' comprehension capacities, your curriculum's themes, and your own assessments on what students need next.Â
Doug, Nancy, and Diane provide:
- How-to's for measuring word and sentence length and other countable features of any written work while giving ample consideration to the readers in your room, and how their background knowledge, experiences, and motivations come into play
- A rubric for analyzing literary texts for plot structure, point of view, imagery, clarity, and more—and a complexity scale for analyzing informational texts that describe, inform, and explain
- Classroom scenarios of teachers and students engaging with fiction and nonfiction texts that provide enough of a stretch, so you'll know the difference between a healthy struggle and frustrationÂ
- The authors' latest thinking on routines that invite students to interact with complex texts and with one another, including teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent readingÂ
It's time to see text complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of our students' at just the right time. Think of this second edition as Text Complexity-2-Go, because it's all about the movement of minds at work, going deeper than anyone ever thought possible.Â
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Text Complexity in a New Light
- 2 Quantitative Measures of Text Complexity
- 3 Qualitative Values of Literary Texts
- 4 Qualitative Aspects of Informational Texts
- 5 Exploring Teacher-Led Tasks Modeling Expert Thinking
- 6 Exploring Teacher-Led Tasks Closely Reading Complex Texts
- 7 Exploring Teacher-Led Tasks Scaffolded Reading Instruction of Complex Texts
- 8 Exploring Peer-Led Tasks Collaborative Conversations and Peer-Mediated Learning
- 9 Exploring Individual Tasks
- References
- Index
- Publisher Note
- Publisher Note
- Publisher Note