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Instructional Strategies

Designing Lessons That Foster Deep Understanding of Complex Text

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In this Webinar

What are components to consider when teaching complex text? How can educators design learning experiences with engaging strategies to closely read challenging material? And what are these types of text across content areas? Join Kathy Glass, author of the ASCD book Complex Text Decoded: How to Design Lessons and Use Strategies That Target Authentic Texts, for practical support and suggestions for close reading of rigorous text. During this one-hour interactive webinar, Glass will introduce a lesson framework, share concrete strategies that infuse rigor and engagement into your lessons, and provide examples of traditional and nontraditional complex text across content areas.

About the presenter

Kathy Tuchman Glass, a consultant and master teacher, is an accomplished author and former teacher with more than 25 years of experience in education. She provides customized professional development services to K–12 educators in curriculum and instruction. She is recognized for her expertise in differentiated instruction, standards work around English language arts, all areas of literacy, instructional strategies and teaching methods across content areas, assessments, curriculum mapping, and backward planning for unit and lesson design. She is invested in increasing educators' capacity to hone their craft and translate what she teaches to effective classroom practice.

Her publications include several works with Solution Tree Press and Corwin Press. In addition, she has written numerous articles, blogs, and textbook and editorial reviews.

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