Not exact matches
The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense
of their
text, to students who are reading
at this Advanced
level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a
variety of literacy
levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are
at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all
of these other kids.
A
variety of text levels is provided; some
texts are more challenging to allow teachers to differentiate for children reading
at different
levels within the class.
Part
of this process was to inform them about free electronic
text sources available, specifically the Orange Grove Digital Repository and CK - 12 websites (see Figure 1), which provide open textbooks for math and science
at a
variety of grade
levels and courses.
Tennessee also requires middle school teachers to pass the Praxis Teaching Reading: Elementary Education test, which, under the heading «reading comprehension strategies across
text types,» requires teachers to know «how to select and use a
variety of informational, descriptive, and persuasive materials
at appropriate reading
levels to promote students» comprehension
of nonfiction, including content - area
texts.»
When Penguin launched its
leveled readers program earlier this year, aimed
at providing age - and ability
level - appropriate
texts for readers
of a
variety of groups, the successful reception was enough to warrant a new tool for increased literacy.
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