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Teaching With Challenging Texts in the Disciplines
Author(s) -
Fang Zhihui,
Pace Barbara G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.229
Subject(s) - operationalization , reading (process) , subject (documents) , mathematics education , pedagogy , column (typography) , teaching method , common core , computer science , linguistics , psychology , sociology , core (optical fiber) , epistemology , world wide web , philosophy , telecommunications , frame (networking)
The Common Core State Standards highlight the need to read–independently, closely, and proficiently–increasingly complex texts. However, they do not specify how such reading is to be done. This column provides a brief critique of text complexity and close reading and offers some concrete ideas for operationalizing these two concepts in secondary subject area classrooms.