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“Help! I Need Appropriately Complex Texts for my Elementary and Middle School Students!”

June 23, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 17 Comments

If you are an elementary or middle school teacher who has ever perused my article of the week lists (disclaimer: Kelly Gallagher is the man who invented Articles of the Week), you’ve probably wanted to hurt me. This is because my articles are often a stretch even for my ninth graders (after all, the vocabulary difficulty of newspapers has remained stable […]

9 Complex Text Resources I’m Pretty Pumped About Right Now

December 12, 2013 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

Recently, there’s been a trend in the messages I’ve received from the stellar stock of humanity known as you, the Teaching the Core readership (btw, if you ever need to contact me, just use this link — it goes straight to my inbox). Here’s what I’ve been receiving: life-improving, useful resources for 1) finding complex texts for […]

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