Thanks again for your wonderful responses and discussion last week!
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
One of the implications for instruction in Chapter 3 is to accelerate students’ progress up the ladder of text difficulty. What are you already doing in your classroom to accelerate your students up the ladder? How effective are your methods? What evidence do you have that your methods are effective?
Responses to the prompt are due by Monday evening May 6. Then, you are expected to revisit this site and reply to at least one of your fellow participant’s comment by Thursday, May 9th. 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.
