Exploring the TextProject Website and Text Complexity
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_words “The learning from complex texts in content areas and literature needs to be the centerpiece of...
View ArticleWebquest for CCSS
By Dana L. Grisham Last year in this blog, I wrote about about TextProject (http://textproject.org) , a not-for-profit organization that supports struggling readers with appropriate texts see the...
View ArticleWhat is Text Complexity: TextProject Resources
By Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Dana L. Grisham Have you heard the term “text complexity” and wondered what it means for you and your students? Dana and I, along with Freddy Hiebert, have developed a...
View ArticleText Complexity in the Digital Age: An F for Online Reading?
By Thomas DeVere Wolsey If you are reading this, chances are good that you are a teacher or education professional. As a result, the subtitle probably caught your attention right away; but this blog...
View ArticleReading Complex Texts In Digital Environments: Four Teaching Practices
By Thomas DeVere Wolsey Go to the parking lot of almost any school and ask ten adults (parents, school staff, faculty, etc.) if technology is helping students to be better readers in general or if it...
View ArticleFour Online Reading Tasks
By Thomas DeVere Wolsey Researchers are delving deeper into the nature of online reading tasks for PK-12 students; however, four common tasks emerge that readers encounter often. The MNOP teaching...
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