Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text

by Mary Ann Cappiello

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425814603
• ISBN13: 9781425814601
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Shell Education Pub
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12