EPISODE · Jun 4, 2014 · 10 MIN
How Can Teachers Meet the Common Core Requirement for Complex Reading?
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Common Core requires teachers to push students to read increasingly complex text. What meets the definition of a complex text? What strategies, tools and resources can teachers use to achieve this goal? Today we'll explore these questions. Follow: @Amybenjamin1 @wendi322 @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork Virginia McEnerney is th Executive Director, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. David Booth is a professor of Literacy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He has written many books on effective reading and writing strategies, on helping boys develop literacy proficiency, and on the arts in education.
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Common Core requires teachers to push students to read increasingly complex text. What meets the definition of a complex text? What strategies, tools and resources can teachers use to achieve this goal? Today we'll explore these questions. . Follow: @Amybenjamin1 @wendi322 @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork @bamradionetwork Amy Benjamin is a national consultant specializing in the literacy standards for the Common Core. She is the author of numerous books, including Vocabulary at the Core and Teaching Grammar: What Really Works. Her most recent book is Focus on Text: Tackling the Reading Standards of the Common Core. Wendi Pillars is a National Board Certified ESL Teacher, who has been teaching K-12 for 17 years.
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