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

Features. As an important tool for instruction and text selection Teaching to Text Complexity will help teachers learn to evaluate childrens and young adult literature for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. In addition it explores how instructional purpose shapes not only the kinds of curricular texts used but also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection this book helps teachers more deeply understand text complexity in the Common Core and other state standards as well as its importance when building and using text sets in the classroom and reading for different purposes.