Engaging adolescents in discussions about text
Dr. Janice Dole, who helped develop the Improving Adolescent Literacy Practice Guide, talks about the effectiveness of giving students opportunities for extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation.
Inference and informational text
This 6th grade teacher uses a simple photograph to help her students recognize all the information they can infer from a photo — a springboard into having the students work together to determine what they can infer from passage they read.
Learning to love text complexity
ELA teacher and literacy expert Carol Jago talks about the difference between readability and Lexile levels — and true text complexity.
