Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Text

As an important tool for instruction and text selection, Teaching to Text Complexity will help teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. In addition, it explores how instructional purpose shapes not only the kinds of curricular texts used, but also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection, this book helps teachers more deeply understand text co…