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Papola-Ellis, Aimee L. – Reading Horizons, 2014
As more districts begin implementing the Common Core State Standards, text complexity is receiving a lot of discussion. It is important for educators to understand the numerous factors involved with text complexity and to have a wide range of strategies to support students with challenging text. This paper shares data from three elementary…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Common Core State Standards
Jones, Barbara; Chang, Sandy; Heritage, Margaret; Tobiason, Glory; Herman, Joan – Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2015
This resource is part of a series produced by the Center for Standards and Assessment Implementation (CSAI) to assist teachers and those who support teachers to plan teaching and learning from College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS) for all students, including students with disabilities, English learners, academically at-risk students, students…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Gifted Disadvantaged
Kettlewell, Gail B. – 1983
College students can read, but they often lack the prereading and postreading skills needed to help them think about and respond to what they read. A three-step plan can help students read and understand the text more fully. The first step entails using measures of fitness to determine: (1) the grade level of the text being considered and how it…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Goodness of Fit, Higher Education, Readability Formulas
Harris, Theodore L., Ed.; Cooper, Eric J., Ed. – 1985
Intended to help teachers both improve students' text comprehension and better understand the teaching-learning process involved, this book focuses on comprehension and concept development as the central core of an effective educational program. The book's five sections deal with teaching explicit comprehension skills, precomprehension and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Content Area Reading
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1985
The papers included in this book focus on writing and reading across the curriculum. Beginning with an introduction by Malcolm P. Douglass, the book contains the following 25 titles: "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum" (Malcolm P. Douglass); "A Deepening Understanding of Reading and Writing" (Walter Loban); "The…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing