Text Complexity Resources from NCTE

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Here are some resources to support your students in comprehending today's complex literary texts.

• Watch the video "Simplifying Text Complexity" which explores how the way we layer text impacts complexity.
• Check out "Getting Started with Questions of Text Complexity" in the Literacy Learning Exchange.
• Learn more from Eileen Murphy Buckley in her book 360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing.
• View the On Demand Web seminar package on text complexity.
• Join us for the live Web seminar "Collaborative Conversations: Meeting Speaking and Listening Standards" on April 14 with Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.

Check out these events on professional collaboration.

• View the #nctechat Archive on "The Importance of Collaboration."
• Join us this summer for the CEL Institute on "Critical Issues: Assessment" for focused, collaborative work with literacy leaders from across the country.

Nominate a colleague for the NCTE Outstanding Middle Level Educator Award (formerly the Edwin A. Hoey Award). The language arts magazine Scholastic Scope sponsors this award and provides a cash award of $2,500. Nominations must be submitted by the May 1, 2014 deadline.

Debbie Zagorski
Middle Level Administrative Liaison
National Council of Teachers of English
1111 W. Kenyon Road
Urbana, IL 61801-1096
800-369-6283 ext. 3612
www.ncte.org/middle