Teaching to Complexity ebook
A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text
Published on 1. November 2014
248 pages
978-1-4258-9745-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Mary Ann Cappiello | Erika Dawes
Teaching to Complexity
A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text
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11/2014
Shell Educational Publishing
€57.06
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Credits
- Page 3 - Table of Contents
- Page 5 - Foreword
- Page 7 - Dedication and Acknowledgements
- Page 9 - Introduction
- Page 15 - Chapter 1: The Complexity of Literacy Practices
- Page 31 - Chapter 2: Evaluating the Quality of Literacy and Informational Texts
- Page 83 - Chapter 3: Evaluating for Instructional Purpose and Practice
- Page 105 - Chapter 4: Considering Complexity
- Page 137 - Chapter 5: Complexity in Context
- Page 159 - Appendices
- Page 159 - Appendix A: References Cited
- Page 165 - Appendix B: Book Reviews Cited
- Page 169 - Appendix C: Children's Literature Cited
- Page 175 - Appendix D: Resources for Locating Children's Literature
- Page 179 - Appendix E: Resources for Evaluating Texts
- Page 246 - Appendix F: Contents of the Digital Resource CD
- Thank You Page
