Text Complexity: Stretching Readers With Texts and Tasks

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