Join Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of the bestselling Rigorous Reading, as they articulate an instructional plan to support reading instruction within K-12 classrooms.
Join Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of the bestselling Rigorous Reading, as they articulate an instructional plan to support reading instruction within K-12 classrooms.
Learn from Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke, authors of Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, how to teach students the language and behavior of getting along.
Learn from Kathy Glass how to use ELA CC Standards to create rigorous, concept-driven curriculum.
Use this Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2 to determine the complexity of texts and choose the best texts for your class at the right time to advance achievement.
Use this handy Text Complexity Tool from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, to help you rate the text complexity of books, articles, or other texts.
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In this lesson from Vocabulary Is Comprehension, students practice a strategy that asks them to look at an entire word and then use their knowledge of word parts to decode the word.
Consider this list from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, when searching for rich texts to explore with your students.
From the pages of The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, comes this list of rich reading examples for narrative and informational text plus links to online lists with dozens of more resources.
Preview videos on text complexity and collaborative reading featured in Fisher & Frey's Close & Critical Reading PD Resource Center. (K-12)
Read this white paper on how to ensure student success with complex text via usage of the Fisher & Frey Close & Critical Reading PD Resource Center. (K-12)