Teaching to Complexity
| Author | : Mary Ann Cappiello |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2014-11-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781425814601 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1425814603 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (603 Downloads) |
Download or read book Teaching to Complexity written by Mary Ann Cappiello and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.