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Informational Text and the CCSS: Pitfalls and Potential
Registration is now open for Dr. Nell Duke's May 30th webinar. Register now for this FREE webinar. Join us as Dr. Duke shares her thoughts on the use of informational texts in the class
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Recent Frankly Freddy Posts
8 May 2013
An Inside View of the New Assessments
Freddy discusses the computer adaptive assessment portion of the new upcoming assessments.
12 April 2013
FYI for Kids: Building Students’ Capacity for Complex Text
How does the magazine format help students read more complex texts?
22 March 2013
Read-Aloud Favorites: A Source for Enriching Students’ Knowledge of the World and of Language
What's New
15 May 2013
Webinar
Words, Knowledge, and Complex Text
The recording of a webinar Freddy presented for MA teachers and educational leaders on May 10, 2013
6 May 2013
Research Article
Upping the Ante of Text Complexity in the Common Core State Standards:
In this article, we examine the theoretical and empirical support for three assumptions that underlie the acceleration of text complexity in Grades 2–3, as described in the CCSS.
30 April 2013
Topic Item
Assessment
With the new Common Core State Standards comes a set of new assessments. What will the new assessments look like and how do we prepare our students for them?