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Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts
A Framework for Strengthening Comprehension in Grades 6–12
Equip secondary students with age-appropriate strategies to conquer complex informational texts. Gain specific techniques to boost student confidence and facilitate engaging discussions, ultimately fostering deep comprehension and enhancing literacy skills for adolescent readers.
Mastering complex informational texts
Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.
Grades 6–12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to:
- Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts
- Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric
- Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words
- Encourage students’ active participation in text-centered class discussions
- Increase students’ motivation and competence when approaching complex texts
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“Where was this text when I was teaching? This book gave me, as a 30-year teaching veteran, plenty of ideas to support students in reading, comprehending, and reflecting on informational texts. Kudos to Gwen Pauloski for taking what could be considered quite complicated and making it understandable and doable. I recommend this book to all classroom teachers who provide their students with informational texts. This book does the heavy lifting for you!”
“Pauloski offers to educators invaluable advice and an approach that builds students up with important literacy and critical thinking skills to enhance their ability to partake in today’s opportunities and overcome its challenges. Through engaging, meaningful, and research-based strategies, Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts connects with educators and moves beyond theory to meet secondary students where they are.”
