Mining Complex Text Grades 2-5

<p><strong><em>Your power tools for making the complex comprehensible</em></strong></p><p>Now more than ever our students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking talking and writing <span style=font-size: 9pt;>around their reading. If only there were ingenious new tools that could give our students the space to </span><span style=font-size: 9pt;>tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and weld their understandings into a new whole. </span><span style=font-size: 9pt;>Good news: these tools exist—Mining Complex Text. You’ll learn how graphic </span><span style=font-size: 9pt;>organizers can:</span></p><ul> <li>Help students read reread and take notes on a text</li> <li> Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas</li> <li>Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)</li> <li>Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing</li></ul>