by aperkins | Jan 8, 2021 | Blog
This blog post has been updated from its original version posted in 2013. What makes a text complex? Is it the structure? Is it sentence length? Is it student motivation? Text complexity takes into account all of these characteristics and more. If we know that one...
by aperkins | Nov 13, 2012 | Blog
In my last blog Are English Language Arts Teachers Ready? I address one instructional shift, Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity, ELA teachers will need to make in order to wholly address the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college and...
