Sentences with phrase «understand complex texts»

This close reading activity is designed to enable students to dissect and understand the complex text of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech.

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Her Understanding Early Christian Art has served as a fine introductory text to the field, while other works, such as Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity, tackle the complex theological problems surrounding the Christian desire to portray the divine.

Two understandings changed my view of this text: 1) That the Jewish usage of the Hebrew Bible was to provoke questions and discussion and layered complex understandings, not to provide singular absolute answers, and 2) one thread running through the text is a call for us to grow and move beyond the understanding and wisdom of our faith ancestors.

Annotating texts is an evidence - based literacy strategy to help students understand and navigate complex texts, and a large part of my district's schoolwide literacy initiative.

One of the challenges of the «complex text» is gaining a real understanding of exactly what it is.

As the Common Core is implemented more and in more in districts and schools, we as educators need to understand what the «complex text» is both in terms of what is good for our students and what the Common Core might dictate.

One way to help struggling readers to engage with complex text is to first understand the difference between a non-fiction and a work of fiction.

Talk about irony --- I was reading about how readers make mistakes and slow down when text is complex and understanding breaks down.

This resource makes this topic accessible for lower ability students, which leads to greater understanding, rather than having to rely on a more complex text.

When students enter college or the workforce after graduating high school without the necessary reading skills to comprehend complex texts, opportunities for deeper understanding, critical thinking, career advancement, and financial success are negatively affected.

As your child studies complex texts in literature, you'll soon see advances in reading, a better understanding of content, the ability to form and support well - thought - out opinions, and more.

Many students need to learn to understand the recursive nature and shifting perspectives of the writing process, and should be encouraged to take risks, reevaluate, and reflect as they compose increasingly complex texts.

According to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), preparation for reading informational texts should begin at the earliest elementary school grades: «Having students listen to informational read - alouds in the early grades helps lay the necessary foundation for students» reading and understanding of increasingly complex texts on their own in subsequent grades.»

This instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the life lessons in this story.

This collection of 12 discipline - specific formative assessments can be used to easily identify secondary students who would benefit from instruction in multisyllabic word identification — a skill that's critical for reading and understanding complex, academic texts.

These three purposes ensure that students use each multiple read to digest and deepen their understanding of complex text.

Teachers differentiate their assignments for each of their students so they may access the Common Core State Standards, interact with complex nonfiction texts, integrate rigorous literacy skills across the content areas, and contend with complex mathematical skills, procedures, and understandings.

Author Jay McTighe (Understanding by Design) explains how personal meaning making can support transfer goals in complex text comprehension.

Author Grant Wiggins (Understanding by Design) discusses the need to teach students resiliency when working with complex texts.

Spiro, Feltovich, Jacobson, and Coulson (1992) suggested that hypermedia — online text, images, and video with contextual links to other multimedia — which allow learners to explore rich, complex examples from a variety of perspectives, can help them understand how abstract concepts apply differently in specific cases.

She also has coauthored several books: Accommodating Differences Among English Language Learners: 75 + Literacy Lessons (The Guilford Press), Designing Responsive Curriculum: Planning Lessons that Work and Teaching Literacy in First Grade (Tools for Teaching Literacy), and Mining Complex Text, Grades 6 — 12: Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understandings (Corwin).

To develop student thinking and understanding about a complex text over a period of time, whether it is poetry, fiction, or expository texts, teachers can utilize scaffolded thinking map called Peeling the Fruit.

Author Grant Wiggins (Understanding by Design ®) discusses the need to teach students to be resilient when working with complex texts.

In terms of the CCSS, students must be able to determine the theme poem, as well as the vocabulary (key ideas and details); understand structural elements of poems in terms of verse, rhythm, meter (craft and structure); and read and understand more complex poems (text complexity).

Understanding these relationships can help students grasp the underlying structure of complex texts.

By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

The shifts to more conceptual understandings of math and more critical analysis of complex texts have also created more anxiety in some kids, though other teachers have reported more student engagement.

Complex texts take time to understand, and close reading slows students down as they reread and annotate.

Teachers must help students approach complex texts and remind them that difficult texts provide a signal to slow down and use strategies to understand each author's message.

As we consider the framework for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), we can explore how poetry might work alongside other texts and experiences to help students understand our «technology - rich and scientifically complex world.»

The game's text parser was more sophisticated than its predecessors, able to understand short but more complex strings of commands as opposed to basic noun - verb statements.

These seminal texts are invaluable for an understanding of the rich and complex implications of Long's work.

Horn explores identity and duality; sexuality and androgyny; words and text as a basis for understanding art; and the complex interrelationship between the image of the body and geographical landscapes.

A clear understanding of complex processes was conveyed by text alone.