Teaching to Complexity ebook
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Teaching to Complexity ebook

A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teaching to Complexity ebook

A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Teaching to Complexity ebook by Mary Ann Cappiello,Erika Thulin Dawes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Teaching Methods for Reading. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Credits
  4. Page 3 - Table of Contents
  5. Page 5 - Foreword
  6. Page 7 - Dedication and Acknowledgements
  7. Page 9 - Introduction
  8. Page 15 - Chapter 1: The Complexity of Literacy Practices
  9. Page 31 - Chapter 2: Evaluating the Quality of Literacy and Informational Texts
  10. Page 83 - Chapter 3: Evaluating for Instructional Purpose and Practice
  11. Page 105 - Chapter 4: Considering Complexity
  12. Page 137 - Chapter 5: Complexity in Context
  13. Page 159 - Appendices
  14. Page 159 - Appendix A: References Cited
  15. Page 165 - Appendix B: Book Reviews Cited
  16. Page 169 - Appendix C: Children's Literature Cited
  17. Page 175 - Appendix D: Resources for Locating Children's Literature
  18. Page 179 - Appendix E: Resources for Evaluating Texts
  19. Page 246 - Appendix F: Contents of the Digital Resource CD
  20. Thank You Page