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Tackling Tough Texts: A Research-Based Guide to Scaffolding Learning in Grades 6-12

By Sarah M. Lupo, Dan Reynolds & Christine Hardigree Last updated 2025/01/28

Description

This book is for Grade 6-12 teachers, of any subject that requires students to read. It’s reader-friendly and packed with ways to scaffold texts in English and content-area classes.

Using grade-level texts is so important and the authors have organized text challenges into five categories (Textual Density, Knowledge Demands, Text Structure Demands, Vocabulary & Language and Word Reading), with a chapter on how to support your students with each one. The book offers details, examples, blackline masters and much more.

Curriculum Connection

1. Curriculum Context
This book broadly supports Strand C of the Ontario Language Curriculum (Comprehension: Understanding and Responding to Texts) with a helpful chapter on supporting Word Reading in older students (as it relates to comprehension) as well.
Grade(s): 6 7 8 9

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