According to Calkins, “the Common Core’s discussion of text complexity leans heavily on Reading Between the Lines, a report...that explains that when students didn’t achieve benchmark on the ACT, their struggles stemmed more from the levels of text complexity in the passages than from deficits in the specific skills called for by the questions” (32). As a result, the CCSS places emphasis on helping students to progress toward reading more complex texts.
PROMPT (Choose only one and please identify which one you've selected in your response.)
A. What “repertoire of strategies for scaffolding a reader’s work with a text that is just a mite hard for her,” do you currently employ (46)? How effective are your methods, and what evidence do you have that your methods are effective?
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B. What are you currently doing to assess the reading level and/or comprehension of your students? What specific evidence does your assessment give you about your students as readers? How are you using this information to accelerate student progress up the ladder of text complexity?
Responses to the prompt are due by Monday evening (1/27). Then, you are expected to revisit this site and reply to at least one of your fellow participant’s comment by Thursday, January 30. If you need help posting your comment, watch this video.
Don’t forget to read chapter 4 and 5 in anticipation of next week’s prompt.
PROMPT (Choose only one and please identify which one you've selected in your response.)
A. What “repertoire of strategies for scaffolding a reader’s work with a text that is just a mite hard for her,” do you currently employ (46)? How effective are your methods, and what evidence do you have that your methods are effective?
OR
B. What are you currently doing to assess the reading level and/or comprehension of your students? What specific evidence does your assessment give you about your students as readers? How are you using this information to accelerate student progress up the ladder of text complexity?
Responses to the prompt are due by Monday evening (1/27). Then, you are expected to revisit this site and reply to at least one of your fellow participant’s comment by Thursday, January 30. If you need help posting your comment, watch this video.
Don’t forget to read chapter 4 and 5 in anticipation of next week’s prompt.
