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How to Help Kids Absorb Complex Nonfiction Texts

How can we give our middle grades students the strategies and scaffolding they need to read and absorb high-interest but complex informational texts? Author and nonfiction text expert Sunday Cummins and her two teacher colleagues share their classroom-tested solution.

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How can we give our middle grades students the strategies and scaffolding they need to read and absorb high-interest but complex informational texts?

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How can we give our middle grades students the strategies and scaffolding they need to read and absorb high-interest but complex informational texts? Author and nonfiction text expert Sunday Cummins and her two teacher colleagues share their classroom-tested solution. How to Help Kids Absorb Complex Nonfiction Texts first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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