Texts, Texts, Texts: A Guide to Analyze Texts for Elementary Students. (16th July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Reutzel, D. Ray; Fawson, Parker C.
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 75:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 495
• Page End: 504
• Publication Date: 2021-07-16
• Subjects: Informal -- Instructional strategies -- teaching strategies -- Text features -- text structure -- Text types -- text features -- 1‐Early childhood -- 2‐Childhood; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.2039
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: This manuscript describes the need elementary teachers have to analyze beginning and complex texts for teaching affordances and obstacles when teaching reading foundational skills and core ELA standards. A Guide to Analyze Texts for Elementary Students (GATES) is provided and described. Two teacher cases discuss how real teachers have used the GATES to analyze texts for instructional purposes.