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William P. Bintz – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2025
This article describes an unexpected playground experience that occurred between the author, a reading educator and former middle grades teacher, and his six-year-old granddaughter. The experience became the inspiration and impetus to provide an introduction to, and a rationale for, the concept of text clusters to middle grades teachers. The…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Books, Reading Materials, Reading Instruction