Turning the Page on Complex Texts: Differentiated Scaffolds for Close Reading Instruction (Grade-Specific Classroom Scenarios for Common Core State Standards) - Softcover

Lapp Edd, Diane; Moss, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935249460 ISBN 13: 9781935249467

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2016

Synopsis

Ensure all learners become successful close readers. In this powerful resource, the authors examine what features make a text complex. Learn how to select appropriate complex texts and design instruction to meet the needs of every student. Explore grade-specific classroom scenarios that illustrate how to scaffold lessons to foster close reading and deepen comprehension at all stages of K-12 education.

Benefits

• Gain practical teaching strategies for creating close reading lessons.
• Consider grade-level-specific instructional scenarios that illustrate how to support students' reading comprehension as they learn to read closely.
• Learn how to evaluate a text's complexity and how to ask text-dependent questions that can help students engage with a text.
• Study evidence for why continuous close assessment of student performance is vital for making sure all students learn to closely read complex texts.
• Discover potential contingency scaffolds for the classroom and how to use them to promote student success in closely reading a text.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Background and Planning Information

1 Understanding Close Reading

2 Identifying Text Complexity

3 Making Decisions That Support Close Reading Instruction

4 Assessing During Close Reading

Part II: Instructional Scenarios

5 Understanding What the Text Says Through Differentiated Scaffolds

6 Understanding How the Text Works Through Differentiated Scaffolds

7 Understanding What the Text Means Through Differentiated Scaffolds

8 Supporting Knowledge Demands with Differentiated Scaffolds

Epilogue

Appendix A

References and Resources

About this title

About the Author

Diane Lapp is a Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University, where her research and instruction focuses on issues related to struggling readers and writers, their families, and their teachers. An instructional coach for the Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, she has recently returned to the classroom to teach sixth-grade English and Earth Science. Dr. Lapp is also a member of both the California and International Reading Halls of Fame for her dedication to reading instruction.

Barbara Moss is coauthor of No More Independent Reading Without Support, part of the Not This, But That series. Barbara is a professor of literacy education at San Diego State University, where she teaches courses at the credential and masters levels. She has been a reading specialist, a reading supervisor, and presently works in an urban San Diego high school as a literacy coach. She has published numerous journal articles, books, and educational materials. Her areas of research interest include informational texts, content area literacy, and children's literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935249460
• ISBN 13: 9781935249467
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 184