June 2017 Scoop
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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 />
of<br />
the image to access<br />
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video on text complexity.<br />
a<br />
#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 />
ABOVE<br />
texts with literature enriches both.<br />
THE ELA SCOOP<br />
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