Turning the Page on Complex Texts

Differentiated Scaffolds for Close Reading Instruction

Ensure all learners become successful close readers. In this powerful resource, the authors examine how to select appropriate complex texts and design instruction to meet the needs of every student. Explore grade-specific classroom scenarios that illustrate how to scaffold lessons to foster close reading and deepen comprehension at all stages of K–12 education.

Benefits

• Gain practical teaching strategies for creating close reading lessons.
• Consider grade-level-specific instructional scenarios that illustrate how to support students as they learn to read closely.
• Learn how to evaluate a text's complexity and how to ask text-dependent questions that can help students engage with a text.
• Study evidence for why continuous close assessment of student performance is vital for making sure all students learn to closely read complex texts.
• Discover potential contingency scaffolds for the classroom and how to use them to promote student success in closely reading a text.