There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts
No matter what discipline you teach, learn how to use complexity as a dynamic, powerful tool for sliding the right text in front of your students' at just the right time.
Updates to this new edition include
- How-to's for measuring countable features of any written work
- A rubric for analyzing the complexity of both literary and informational texts
- Classroom scenarios that show the difference between a healthy struggle and frustration
- The authors' latest thinking on teacher modeling, close reading, scaffolded small group reading, and independent reading