Complex Text Decoded: How to Design Lessons and Use Strategies That Target Authentic Texts - Softcover

Glass, Kathy T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416620370 ISBN 13: 9781416620372

Publisher: ASCD, 2015

Synopsis

In Complex Text Decoded, educational consultant and former master teacher Kathy T. Glass presents strategies, activities, and assessments that target students’ ability to comprehend complex text―whether presented as traditional written text or in multimedia formats―in grades 5–10. You’ll learn

* The essential elements of unit design and models for lesson planning.
* Specific, step-by-step instruction for teaching vocabulary.
* Effective questioning techniques.
* Strategies and activities explicitly designed for teaching complex text.
* How to measure text complexity and select appropriate texts that are aligned with curricular goals.

It's important to provide opportunities for students to read a wide variety of texts for different purposes and along a spectrum of difficulty and length. To meet the goal of comprehensively grasping complex text, students must have concrete tools to help them become highly skilled readers. Complex Text Decoded enables teachers to provide precisely that.

About this title

About the Author

Kathy T. Glass consults nationally with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. A former master teacher, she has been in education for more than 25 years and works with administrators and teachers in groups of varying sizes from kindergarten through high school. Her expertise revolves around areas of curriculum and instruction, such as implementation of the ELA Common Core State Standards or other standards-based curricula; backward design; differentiated tools, strategies, and assessments; pre-, formative, self-, and summative assessments; writing instruction and assessment; unit and yearlong curriculum maps; text-dependent questions; and engaging instructional strategies that facilitate close reading. By providing educators with practical application of research-based methods, she works to strengthen their teaching or coaching and extend their professional capacities to help improve student achievement.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416620370
• ISBN 13: 9781416620372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195