How Can Teachers Meet the Common Core Requirement for Complex Reading?

Common Core requires teachers to push students to read increasingly complex text. What meets the definition of a complex text? What strategies, tools and resources can teachers use to achieve this goal? Today we'll explore these questions.

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Amy Benjamin is a national consultant specializing in the literacy standards for the Common Core. She is the author of numerous books, including Vocabulary at the Core and Teaching Grammar: What Really Works. Her most recent book is Focus on Text: Tackling the Reading Standards of the Common Core. Wendi Pillars is a National Board Certified ESL Teacher, who has been teaching K-12 for 17 years.