Text sets in action : pathways through content area literacy

Finding ways to organize your classroom instruction for knowledge building and literacy learning can be challenging. How can you incorporate more nonfiction and informational text in your content area curriculum while expanding and deepening representation with diverse texts? What can motivate student learning while providing equity and access for different learning styles and needs? Text sets are the answer!In Text Sets in Pathways Through Content Area Literacy, authors Erika Thulin Dawes and Mary Ann Cappiello demonstrate how text sets offer students the opportunity to build critical thinking skills and informational literacy while generating interest and engagement across the content areas. Put your students in the center of the meaning-making in your classroom with multimodal multi-genre text sets in action. In Text Sets in Action, the Text Sets in Action will help you create a collection of text sets that can be added to or edited over the years to align with your lesson plan goals. Teachers who have adopted this approach saw greater student reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. By introducing a multitude of text, teachers will ignite a spirit of inquiry and engagement for lifelong learning. "Text Sets in Action inspires and supports teachers as they create language arts, science, math, and social studies lessons, using multimodal, multigenre text sets. These sets are comprised of high-quality children's nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and real world texts of all genres and modalities. When the texts are juxtaposed with one another, students and teachers discover different ways of seeing and understanding the world around them, asking and answering important questions and then creating their own unique texts in response to their learning"-- Provided by publisher Explores how text sets can prompt serious thinking far more effectively than a textbook or any single text. As the authors explain, exploring many texts leads teachers and learners to ‘think more deeply, empathize more fully, and take action more deliberately’.