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Tackling Tough Texts
February 4, 2025
Yes, Students Can Read Tough Texts. Here’s How to Scaffold Their Learning
How do you get kids to read—and actually understand —hard texts? Teachers know it’s important for students to read historical primary sources, scientific research studies, or literary texts with unfamiliar language, like Shakespeare or the Odyssey . Research also shows that adolescents need high...
Dan Reynolds, Ph.D. - Coyle Fellow
September 17, 2021
Balancing Perspectives: An Integrative Text Set on Racism and Housing
In my post series about text sets , I’ve outlined research on text sets from cognitive , disciplinary , and critical perspectives. Each of these perspectives offers specific aims for what a literacy unit’s texts might look like. But how might a teacher bring them together? How can a teacher aim for...
Dan Reynolds, Ph.D. - Coyle Fellow
September 8, 2021
Text Sets & Critical Perspectives
Just what is a text set , anyways? Turns out, a teacher’s text set depends a lot on their perspective on literacy. In this blog post series, I’ve described the QTS text set from the cognitive perspective and the Project READI text set from the disciplinary literacy perspective . To complement those...
Dan Reynolds, Ph.D. - Coyle Fellow
August 30, 2021
Disciplinary Literacy Perspective on Text Sets
In my last two posts, I sketched the popularity and emergence of research on text sets , and outlined the Quad Text Set (QTS) framework aimed at helping students reading more complex texts . In this post, I’ll discuss text set framework called Project READI , whose goal is to scaffold students’ use...
Dan Reynolds, Ph.D. - Coyle Fellow
August 23, 2021
Cognitive Perspectives on Text Sets from Reading Research
Text sets are popular for many teachers and researchers, but the definition of a text set —any thematically-linked collection of texts—can often be quite vague. In this post, I’ll explore a specific approach to designing text sets: a cognitive approach with the goal of building students’ ability to...
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