Text complexity :

Fisher, Douglas, 1965-

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp - Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, 2012 - xi, 140 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

|tText complexity is the new black --|tQuantitative measures of text complexity --|tQualitative measures of text complexity --|tMatching readers to texts and tasks -- |gA|tclose reading of complex texts

This book focuses on the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. It also examines how close readings of complex texts scaffold students understanding and allow them to develop the skills necessary to read like a detective. --from publisher description

9780872074781


Reading comprehension

LB1573.7 / .F56 2012