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plays a central role in ELA instruction. It is essential to<br />

Text<br />

texts that are rich and worthy of close, careful reading. It<br />

use<br />

also important to provide all students with the opportunity<br />

is<br />

work with complex texts. Assessing a texts’ complexity is a<br />

to<br />

part of planning effective instruction. In the ELA<br />

valuable<br />

students should be reading and spending 50<br />

classroom,<br />

of their time with informational texts and 50 percent<br />

percent<br />

their time with literary texts. Often pairing informational<br />

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video on text complexity.<br />

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#1<br />

Teachers use high-quality, appropriately complex<br />

text as the center of instruction. There is a balance<br />

of informational and literary texts.<br />

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texts with literature enriches both.<br />

THE ELA SCOOP<br />

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