Scaffolded Reading Instruction of Content-Area Texts

• Published in: The Reading teacher Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 347 - 351
• Main Authors: Fisher, Douglas, Frey, Nancy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newark Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2014; International Reading Association; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: and materials; Childhood; Complexity; Comprehension; Computer Assisted Instruction; Content analyses; Content analysis; CONTENT AREA LITERACY; Content Area Reading; Content literacy; Difficulty Level; etc.; Expectation; Grade levels; Informational text; Instructional scaffolding; Instructional strategies; Instructional strategies, teaching strategies; Inventions; Learning strategies; Literacy; methods; Questioning; Reading comprehension; Reading Instruction; Reading strategies; Reading teachers; Scaffolding; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Scaffolds; Specific subject areas (math; Specific subject areas (math, art, etc.); Strategies; Strategies, methods, and materials; Study strategies; Summarizing; Teachers; Teaching Methods; teaching strategies

In this column, we focus on increasing text complexity during scaffolded, small group instruction. We begin with a discussion about the need to adjust expectations for leveled texts for older readers and then focus on the ways in which teachers can accomplish this.