25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core: Literature and Informational Texts: Grades 7–8 - Softcover

Lee, Martin; Miller, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545577136 ISBN 13: 9780545577137

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2014

Synopsis

A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.
• Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity.
• Companion comprehension questions require students to read closely, reread, and find explicit examples in the text to support their answers.
• Includes detailed qualitative complexity information to help teachers focus on the purpose and meaning, structure and language, and knowledge demands of each passage.

About this title

About the Authors

Educational consultants and former teacher from New York, Marcia Miller has written many books for Scholastic including Informational Text assages for Text Marking and Close Reading (series for grades 1–6), 25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core (series for grades 2–7/8), Morning Jumpstarts: Reading (series for grades 1–6), Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills (grades 2–3 and 4–6), and many more.

Educational consultant and former teacher from New York, Martin Lee has written many books for Scholastic including Informational Text assages for Text Marking and Close Reading (series for grades 1–6), 25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core (series for grades 2–7/8), Morning Jumpstarts: Reading (series for grades 1–6), Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills (grades 2–3 and 4–6), and many more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545577136
• ISBN 13: 9780545577137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80